after read the other tepid review and comment and i felt i have to come to bat for this movie . roeg film tend to have little to do with one another and and expect this one to be like one of his you like be probably off the mark . what this film be be a thoughtful and unabashed look at religious faith . the only other film like it in term of it religious message would have to be tolkin ` the rapture . i be astonish that anyone could say the story be muddle or supernatural . it be a simple movie about catholic faith and miracle and and redemption though you would never guess it till the end . it be also the only movie i can think of whose resolution turn and literally and on a pun . a a ( happily ) fall catholic myself and i know what the movie be about and and i find a sort of fondness in it ultimate innocence about the relation between god and man . but if you be not familiar with the kind of theology on which the film be base and then it will go right over you head . a a film a oppose to a story ` cold heaven it be not ground break . while ` the rapture be heavy with pictorial significance and cinematic imagery and ` cold heaven downplay it own cinematic quality . there be no striking shot and no edgy effect and no attempt to fit the content to the form . it be workmanlike shoot and but subdue . nor do it have dialogue or act to put it in a class of high drama . it be a simple story that unfold simply . it may seem odd while but at the end the mystery be reveal . it look ambiguous while but with a single line the ambiguity vanishes in a puff of catholic dogma . in this regard and ` cold heaven have at it heart exactly the same sort of thing that drive a movie like ` the sting and or ` the sixth sense and or ` final descent and or polanski ` a pure formality . all of these be film with a trick up their sleeve . they may frustrate you along the way and but they have a point an obvious one and indeed but the fun be and at least in part and in have be take in . still and even if it seem like little more than a shaggy dog story with a punch line and it be worth watch for way it direct and misdirect you . try it especially if you be and or have ever be and a catholic .