A dishevelled stranger stumbles into a snowy Turkish town near the Armenian border and finds initial acceptance for having rescued a boy from the river, which then turns on one hand to awe at the apparent miracles he performs and on the other increasing irritation with his cryptic religious pronouncements and unwillingness to work. In between, he keeps meeting a local girl with whom he communicates relentlessly in animal yelps and howls, which is presumable meant to impress on us what free spirits they are.
The film is lambently shot in an evocative setting and promises a lot with its dancing on the edge of out-and-out surrealism, but only manages to deliver one perceptible and limp message after two hours of spiritually flatulent Paulo Coelhoesque fannying about, namely that people are fickle and credulous on the whole.
4/10
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