We open, more or less, on a mongoose fighting a snake in a cage fight. Jose, a young boy, gets in trouble for breaking his grandmother's, Ma Tine's, bowl. In his free time, Jose teaches the local boat driver, Carmen, the alphabet.

The community squabbles about the poor wages being paid to them by their overlords. One of the old men in the community, Medouze, tells Jose some riddles.

The children of the village find themselves in awe of finding…

It's Sunday morning and I'm having coffee in bed, but I'm all out of Swedish wood strawberries.

Denmark. A father and son from Sweden have arrived on a boat. No one want's to help them: "The kid is too young." "Go back to Sweden." But, after all, "You shouldn't say yes to just anything."

Pelle and his father, Lasse, abruptly say yes to working on a farm. They are given a fly-ridden room. Pelle meets Rud, the bastard child of…

I want to believe, as they say.

It's a low budget indie with a good attitude and two better than average stars, but the lack of production hinders it.

It's very dark, which at times can feel like a choice and at others like the budget didn't allow for lights (empathy).

There's a strange number of extremely long, static takes of dialog. The actors are actually good enough carry them which adds a certain je ne sais quoi

I wish…

Let's talk about nice things! This film contains:

My favorite score of the year
My favorite ing performance of the year
Great photography
Great pacing

I also love Italian anarchists and marble quarries!

The interplay between the artist and patron and the way László has to navigate surviving as a poor immigrant in America is excellent.

Let's talk about muddy things!

Is the epilog suggesting that the mute and wheelchair bound László is having his life's work usurped by Zionism? …