Milky Way

Spontaneous Zen, which is slightly disfigured only by a container story in which Fliegauf displays not the free flow of things, but social commentary. Other "static" scenes are without question brilliant and test the viewer's ability to patiently read the image not only using rationality, but above all through emotions. Fliegauf turned the film screen into a gallery and watching of a film into meditation. Milky Way is truly an ambient film, because it is also able to be inconspicuously "in the background" while significantly determining the perception of time and space. One of the masterful uses of narrativity in its "elementary" form. (08/26/2011)

At first, out of benevolence, I didn't want to give it any rating because I hadn't even finished watching it, but when I think back on the film, I'm increasingly annoyed with it. A film where absolutely nothing that makes any rational sense happens is simply not a matter worthy of praise or interest to me. Even more now, on the other hand, I feel the need to extol a classic narrative that can reach the viewer and even keep them awake – this is interesting perhaps only because of how audaciously uninteresting it is. (05/02/2017)

From an artistic point of view, Milky Way doesn't have a single flaw, but I'm probably not in the mood right now to meditate on the slowly unfolding life scenes. However, I must appreciate that in most of the images, with a little good will, one can find unexpected and quite often significant points. (65%) (06/03/2020)