Samsara review – unlike anything else you will experience in the cinema – The Guardian

All nice cinema is a journey of kinds, however there comes a degree when it feels as if film-makers are treading the identical well-worn paths. Not so with Spanish director Lois Patiño’s outstanding immersive voyage Samsara (the title refers back to the Buddhist cycle of deaths and rebirths): half movie, half guided meditation, it’s not like anything you’ll be able to expertise within the cinema.

The movie begins in Laos, the place a Buddhist boy is studying to an aged lady, Mon (Simone Milavanh), from the Bardo Thödol, a information to the journey between dying and reincarnation. When Mon dies, a message on display invitations us to shut our eyes with a view to accompany her on her journey to her subsequent life, as a younger goat born on the coast of the island of Zanzibar. This 15-minute phase performs out to a textured tapestry of sound woven from the pure world; flickering, rippling colors and strobing gentle pulses on the display – considered by way of closed eyelids – create a form of lightshow within the thoughts’s eye. There’s a distant kinship maybe, within the theme of cycles of life, with Michelangelo Frammartino’s documentary Le Quattro Volte. However Samsara is a strikingly unique and profound art work. See it (and listen to it) in a cinema, if in any respect attainable.

• In cinemas/on Curzon Dwelling Cinema

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