Review of Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017) by Andrew N — 13 Jan 2019

This is a slow burn movie that takes you on a journey to possibly a different dimension where we watch Lernert and Rola walk across a desert, sometime in the near or distant future, to find the mythical Crystal Lake, with a little help from a disembodied robot head.

Basically, nothing happens but the way nothing happens is brilliantly done and our two protagonists hold the story together easily and skilfully. You are interested in them both and hope that they reach their goal despite the probabilities being against them. The direction is light, and awkward silences or quiet moments are allowed to linger, sometimes uncomfortably but correctly so. It is not a movie you'll watch and come out feeling renewed or ready to conquer the world, but this is a story that will linger, especially with me, for quite a while. If only just for it's simplicity and dreamy quality. They don't make movies like this anymore, I don't think they ever did.