“I saw the most visually amazing movie last night.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, it made 300 look like child’s play, only without a single computer generated image.”

“Really?”

“It was like Pan’s Labyrinth‘s older, cooler brother.”

It may not be fair or accurate to draw comparisons. There have been visually and thematically similar movies, but none of them are entirely like this one. Not even the 1981 Bulgarian film it’s based off of. Roger Ebert says it’s, “a movie that you might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it.”

And it’s more than just an explosion of amazing images for the sake of the images themselves (Baraka comes to mind…). It’s a story, through the eyes of a child, a story both endearing and heartrending. I was captivated.

You should see it. If only because it exists.