Have been trying for a full day to find words that do justice to this film — this gently crescendoing, (literal) jaw dropper of a movie that feels in conversation with so many different images & stories that precede it.

The NY Times’ review says that Ross cradles his characters & I think that’s a perfect way of putting it. Amidst the almost unbearable pain & injustice & dehumanization of this story, the form used to tell it is gentle & wondrous & attentive & humanizing & new. Smarter people…