It's like a dream, except there isn't even the faintest hint of narrative or logic.
At times, the narrative pulse is awfully faint.
The reconstruction is faithfully and meticulously undertaken, but is certainly not bed-time reading, any more than "Hell in the Pacific", whose stomach-turning narrative should carry a warning for the faint of heart.
Writer-director Carol Morley's enigmatic latest has proved just such a movie for me; a tale of fevered faints and shared rapture as strange and mysterious as the swooning sickness at the heart of its narrative.
His characters move in such a fog for so long that the narrative momentum sometimes slows, and themes arise like faint aromas or partially noticed objects at the edge of your vision.
The narrative voice of another figure, 50-year-old Richard, is so faint and infrequent it reads like interference on the radio.
Events are conveyed in a raucous, cursing first-person narrative: "I said, 'Oh flip,' and keeled over in a dead faint.
There was just a faint echo of two decades of Galliano style in the hairdos by Julien d'Ys and in the narrative set.
In one narrative, Vishnu and Bhudevi indulge in vigorous embraces and as a result, Bhudevi becomes fatigued and faints, sinking a little in the primordial ocean.
