toto the hero be one of those rare film that improve with each viewing ( and you will want to watch it again and again ) there be enough level go on to satisfy the hardened movie deconstructionist but at the same time the story telling be engagingly simple and seemingly naive . at the surface level a narrative of lose love and mistaken identity and family tragedy and life or death and tulip . dig deeper and there be a complex reflexive subtext about language and subject identity that encompass philosophy and psychoanalysis and the role of the medium itself . joyce and levi strauss and freud and lacan be cite alongside countless reference to cinema and television . watch the opening of billy wild sunset boulevard or read the first page of joyce portrait of the artist a a young man after toto and you may catch my drift . a truly superb piece of cinema that skillfully manage to avoid the post modern posturing that condemn many of van dormael contemporary .