This is a hard one to recommend. It has a very classic journey structure to its narrative. Think that horrible film I reviewed a few weeks ago — in fact there are many remarkable similarities between the two. But the reason I can’t help but recommend this one, despite the fact it is far outside of the popular taste, is that it is one of those works that, perhaps like Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, makes one want to experience it again before one has finished experiencing it the first time. Like The Prophet, I felt like I needed to take note of every other line in a scene. The film drew upon the Bible and the Tao Te Ching; made references to literature and poetry; as another reviewer supposedly said it is an indefinitely pliable allegory. This film, like the room to which its its characters make their pilgrimage, is what you need it to be.