At first glance, it seems like any other experimental film with genre theatrics, but it is more than just that as things unfold as Meredith Monk masterfully directs a flawless combination of medieval musical along with a contemporary music theatre with a pseudo-documentary feel about the joy and suffering of human nature. Book of days is the story of a little girl living in a Jewish community during the middle ages who has the ability to envision the future that prompts her to draw the objects identifiable as a car, an airplane, a gun. The plague begins to strike the villagers as Christians dressed in white starts hating for the cause behind the pandemic. The film draws parallels between the Middle Ages, a time of war, plague, and fear of the Apocalypse. This is an astonishing fiction-within-fiction visual play that ingeniously implicates the viewer supported with highest moral and artistic integrity.
Watching "Book of Soul" is like being awake during a wondrous medieval dream, there is something unique and magical about the chemistry between the little girl and the characters as well as the visuals of the village that surround them. It is a callback to medieval musical movies infused with splendid cinematography. It feels like an ethereal version of The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud and Diamanda Galas synchronized with a really hypnotising soundtrack. I really haven't seen anything like this in a very long time. There's too much to say about it and need to be seen to believe the work done here. A stunning work of art.
Watching "Book of Soul" is like being awake during a wondrous medieval dream, there is something unique and magical about the chemistry between the little girl and the characters as well as the visuals of the village that surround them. It is a callback to medieval musical movies infused with splendid cinematography. It feels like an ethereal version of The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud and Diamanda Galas synchronized with a really hypnotising soundtrack. I really haven't seen anything like this in a very long time. There's too much to say about it and need to be seen to believe the work done here. A stunning work of art.
