This movie is at its best when it’s letting the incredible imagery and Nicholas Jaar score do all the work. There are quite a few individual moments that will stick with me because they’re so well constructed from a technical perspective. The acting is also pretty good. However, I don’t agree with a lot of the writing choices being made here. It opens the story at a point where a lot of the interesting events have already happened, so it recaps those through clunky expository dialogue. The focus point here leads to a film that often meanders around. It’s not uninteresting, but it feels like a lot of the story ideas are specifically build around cool visual cues. Eventually it gets to some interesting ideas about the meaning of modern dance, but it takes a while to get there. It’s not a bad piece of horrible people cinema, however certainly among the director’s weaker efforts so far.

6/10