Fast Times

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someone has compared, in a single breathe, INNOCENCE (2004) to (in no particular order): Last Year at Marienbad, 2046, A Zed with Two Noughts, Stalker, Thin Red Line, Angela Carter (In the company of Wolves!), the spirit of the beehive and the real CLINCHER `a pre-teen take on 'Celine and Julie Go Boating?' .

after reading that, and incapable of picking my JAW off the floor, i read on...

``A Gothic fantasy set in a mysterious walled complex, deep in the forest, where dozens of prepubescent girls are being raised for an unspecified future purpose in an unseen outside world. But despite a nudge-nudge, wink-wink attitude adopted by certain critics, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "Innocence" is a lovely, tender and, yes, innocent film about childhood, which captures both its light, idyllic moments and its undeniably dark undercurrents with extraordinary rigor. This is the weirdest film I've seen all year, or at least the weirdest good film.'' (Salon)

not to mention the Village Voice, which most often than not pans EVERYTHING, waxed lyrical about it

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ok. need to get a grip, cause i'm losing it