With its
sparse dialogue and strikingly beautiful, color - saturated imagery — almost all of it framed in boxy, anachronistic Academy ratio — the movie doesn't really look or sound like any martial arts flick ever made, offering an original and idiosyncratic
take on one of film history's most durable genres.
But you can not
take this film away from its two leads, who beneath the
sparse dialogue seem to be ever communicating in a language of looks and gestures and sideways glances, a secret lovers» morse code blinking out between them like the light at the end of Daisy's pier.