Pumpkin

Pumpkin is exquisitely painful and beautiful. Silly and sappy, at times too. It’s a surreal comedy (in the classical sense) that rests on agony and despair — loneliness, the relentless pressure of society, it’s gaping wounds. No, we don’t usually ask for films like that, or go out of our way for them. But this one is different. It’s full of insight; it says the unspoken. What a film! I wouldn’t have missed a moment of it. I could tell you what it’s about, but that wouldn’t tell you what it’s like. It’s like the twelve bitter, dry, and sour foods at the last meal of the Nativity Fast. Best taken solemnly. And leading to a shining light.

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