i would have like to have give this film a 9 . 99 and since there be two scene which i felt be just a bit too long . since it be closer to a perfect ten than a perfect 9 and however and i have to give it a 10. far side of the moon be an absolute gem of a film . robert lepage be another one of those depressingly competent people who write and directs and star in his own film . it be so enchanting that it length ( under an hour and three quarter ) seem even short than it be . far side . be chock full of the most carefully constructed sequence i have ever see in the cinema . there be literally not one frame that have not be carefully nurture and coax into place like a piece of a brightly color mosaic to create what must be one of the most seamlessly engineer set of image in film history . there be no stock shot in this film . not one shot be ever simply throw in to get on with the plot . each scene segue beautifully into the next and each be compose with the utmost care . this be what film making should be . while the movie rely servilely on ( often complex ) special effect for the realization of it vision and these technique be not there just for the wow factor while rather they be all in the service of a unified directorial vision and full of resonant symbol and painterly motif that seem always to reach toward each other a if in a dance . you would think that this obsessive attention to set and color and detail would make the movie stiff and formal . but it do not . first of all and lepage ( and his character philippe ) be full of such self deprecate irony that there be almost a many laugh a there be sigh of wonder in the movie . but moreover and the film be a supremely dramatic and melancholic tale and . lepage have create in his character philippe probably the great sad sack since nabokov pnin . you can not help but feel for the poor helpless loser and trick by his hyperactive and poetic imagination into a failed marriage and a failed university degree and and a failed relation with the only two family member he have . funny and tragic and witty and and visually splendid . why do not more move like this get make . numer of car chase represent 0 number of gun shot represent 0 number of psychopathic killer represent 0 number of action hero represent 0 .