I wish I had more time to write about this, but I should at least sneak in a few sentences in between annotations for my thesis proposal. On Friday night we went to see Herzog’s new film My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done and the director was there in person to introduce it. Yes, that is a “big deal” and it was the first time in my life that a old German man made me feel as giddy as a schoolgirl, but I wasn’t aware that this cameo would be enough to warrant (another!) huge line outside the cinema on the coldest night in New York this year. At least this time I was certain that our tickets would be honored since I’ve never heard of a movie theater being overbooked.

Anyways, the movie was simply amazing. I say “simply” because it was the story was relatively simple, but totally solid. The visuals were beautiful, the characters were interesting, the casting was great and it had just the right amount of Lynch-ian overtones (Lynch is the executive producer) to make it wonderfully bizarre at precisely the right moments. I just read a review on IMDB that essentially labeled the film “boring and weird,” and I’m not entirely surprised that someone could have that impression but, like I said, I found it to have just the right balance of simplicity and kookiness- this isn’t Eraserhead territory. I would highly recommend it to anyone with an eye for Lynchian tropes and a sense of humor regarding the whole madness&creativity spiel.

This single plot related sentence was enough to spark my interest:

Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword

If it’s enough to ignite yours, go see it.