A beautiful, informative and inspiring study of a way of life defiantly at odds with the glitzy priorities and frenetic pace of the outside world
Hannah McGill, Artistic Director, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009
I remember seeing Bodysong and feeling like I was in a trance. A wonderful collection of the two simple things a film has to work with; pictures and music. I hope to think this is a new kind of movie; emotion through the basic tools of movies – some sound and some pictures.
Paul Thomas Anderson (Director of Boogie Nights and There will be Blood)
A beautiful, hypnotic experience that will show all audiences something they have never seen before. Even the most hardened cynic will be filled with a sense of wonder about human existence.
Rated **** Empire
This exceptional low budget movie restores the faith in the artistic possibilities of cinema
Screen International
It cuts so deep many were in tears……Bruce’s debut is something of a landmark.
The Guardian
Truly luminous… a beauty, inventiveness and magic all of its own
Time Out
The most visually beautiful and hauntingly humourous film I have seen in the last 300 years
Terry Gilliam
In particular Simon Pummell’s ‘Temptation of Sainthood’ shines. Dramatising Freud’s famous case study of Daniel Paul Schreber, it is a rattling foray into the grotesque. At their best, shorts can grab the imagination in a way that features rarely do.
The Guardian
Best of the BFI’s recent films is ‘Rose Red’, a high tech sci-fi mystery that addresses anxieties about surveillance, virtual reality, addiction and lethal viruses… It’s imaginative, directed with impressive assurance and pleasingly reminiscent of early Cronenberg.
Time Out