claire denis have demonstrate repeatedly that film do not need to tell a story and that it be sufficient to create an experience that allow the viewer to take the ingredient and make of them what they will . ostensibly the idea within the framework of a most non linear film be the old man live on the french swiss border and a man devote to his dog and who still have a lover and but whose cardiac status increasingly threaten his life . he have a son with a little family who infrequently meet with him and but when he discover he be in need of a heart transplant he opt for go to tahiti via japan to obtain a heart transplant on the black market and to rekindle a long lost relationship with a son he have form a tahitian woman year ago . what denis do with this outline of a story be use her camera to explore the loneliness of the soul and the vastness of nature and man interaction with people vs animal and etc . much of the time the film doesn not make sense and but that be because we try too hard to connect all the dot lay out before u in beautiful picture . life be sort of like that represent we look and see and observe and integrate and process and and make of it what we will . in use this form of film making ( much a she do in the strangely beautiful beau travail ) claire denis have develop a signature technique . whether or not the viewer find the finished product rewarding have much to do with our individual method of process visual and conceptual information . this be an interesting and visually captivate film and but many viewer will find it an overly long discourse about very little . perhaps watch again will change that . grady harp .