Recently I posted a review of Bertrand Bonello’s latest spiritually cacaphonic film On War. The review starts like this:
Spiritual disciplines span the spectrum from quiet personal self-reflection to physically militant offensives against the ego that tyrannizes us all. Writer/Director Bertrand Bonello’s latest film On War deals with the latter.
On War is a film about purging—the purging of self, of attachment to the world, and of attachment to assumptions about one’s self in the world. As the characters in the film suggest, it is only through this purging that a person may fully release into the immediacy of joy and pleasure. And it is joy and pleasure, things real and authentic, that our protagonist Bertrand (Mathieu Amalric) is searching for.
Full review over at Quiet Earth.
I feel as if it’s a rare thing to see non-conformist spirituality depicted as a center-piece to a film. Anyone know of any others of note? Let’s assume Peter Brook’s Meetings with Remarkable Men is a given.
