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  ★★★★½ review by Eli Hayes on Letterboxd

  "Jerking off in the desert is so like him."

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  ★★★★ review by preston on Letterboxd

  The most striking shot has to be the otherworldly image of the newborn being squeezed out from its mother's womb, as if to say that life, i.e. the mere fact of being alive, is strange and magical (or alternatively that Nature sure works hard to bring us into this life, considering how little joy we find once we get here) - and there is indeed an uncanny quality to this minor-key movie, its spare, witty contours seeming to contain a whole world. The landscape adds to the spell, the rolling fields and occasional pools of water - plus a glimpse of a town where the shapes of the trams echo the sinuous curves of mountain road - the fact that we keep ending up on the same five people also adds to the spell, yet the world is rich nonetheless: there are wolves (or the fear of wolves) to invoke Death or Evil, an innocent baby - used as wolf-bait, held as a kind of marker while its dad fulfils his obligations, finally lost altogether and replaced by a lamb - a woman who behaves like a man, an old man who's no longer 'a man', plus the Object of Desire who seems to end up with everyone else except our hero. By the end, with the title explained, the feeling of a self-contained (albeit small) world is overwhelming.

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  ★★★★ review by Mike D'Angelo on Letterboxd

  77/100

  A.V. Club review. Finally, a Guiraudie joint that fully clicked for me, both thematically and structurally. Though I'm still confused about why the old dude identifies music as Pink Floyd that is clearly not Pink Floyd. (It doesn't seem to be an intentional joke.)

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  ★★★★½ review by Julian Towers on Letterboxd

  86/100

  1. Seeing as how the highest rating I gave last year was an 85, there's a good chance this will end up being my favorite film of 2017. Not going to make any claims for objectivity, tho. If I ever have a career in film, this is pretty much exactly the kind of film I would want to make (except this is obviously much much, much, much, much, better). I dunno. Something about this sort of gently swelling, After-Hoursian nightmare surrealism speaks so profoundly to me. Couldn't really tell you why. Hope it doesn't mean I'm paranoid or delusional or whatever (tho I have been told more than once that I look like young Kafka).

  2. I'll be back to write more about this once I've re-watched and can fully convey just what I find so stunning in greater detail.

  3. Until then: GAAAWD DID YOU SEE IT WHEN ALL THE HOMELESS MEN TAKE HIS CLOTHES AA-AND THE BABY CRYING IN THE DARK aaaaanddddd THE PROG ROCK OOOOH THE PROG ROCK and OH MY GOD WHEN HE OPENS THE DOOR AND THE BOYFRIEND is OOOOOOHHHH AHHHHHHHHH AND THE SHEEP Oh hugging the sheep.

  4. #thisisagoddream

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  ★★★★ review by Graham L. Carter on Letterboxd

  this is not GOAT but WOLF (wonderfully odd little film)

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