On Body and Soul won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last year. It's a marvelously strange movie, an awkward love story. It takes place in a slaughterhouse and there are some predictably gruesome cow scenes. The romance is between two characters who meet each other in their separate dreams. The catch is that they are deer meeting in a snowy wood. I almost want to call it magical realism. It's really beautifully done. The title is perfect. I could not have thought of a more apt title. This movie is like a quiet essay on the connection between body and soul. You really empathize with Maria, who is clearly trying very hard to overcome her autism to express in body what she feels in her soul.
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