A good Halloween choice, but this is all surface and no depth – a very beautiful and bizarre film whose beauty and bizarreness don’t connect to any real emotional weight. Jelisa Rose is so untouched by the events around her that we remain untouched by her. A pity.

I saw this today—I wanted to catch it before it closed.

This movie is not for everyone, or even for every Terry Gilliam fan. It even opens with a disclaimer by Gilliam. I felt this huge sense of dread for the main character the whole time - I kept expecting beasties to come get her. Really though, the things in her life that are really no good are real and they aren’t actually doing her much harm - her fantasy world is protecting her from the crazy going on around her. If you’re looking for Baron Munchausen-style fantasy [or, you know, a plot], this probably isn’t the movie for you, but I left the theater sorting through what fantasy worlds really do for us…