
When Europa skips class and meets a magnetic young man named Jupiter, she embarks on a journey of which she knows little as to what lies ahead. Travelling aboard Jupiter's eight-wheel truck, they arrive in a mythical land inhabited by powerful gods who can transform humans into plants or animals in the blink of an eye. Europa watches, listens, and plays in their immortal home, becoming acquainted with Jupiter's friends, Bacchus and Orpheus. As the confrontation between seduct... (Full plot summary below)
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When Europa skips class and meets a magnetic young man named Jupiter, she embarks on a journey of which she knows little as to what lies ahead. Travelling aboard Jupiter's eight-wheel truck, they arrive in a mythical land inhabited by powerful gods who can transform humans into plants or animals in the blink of an eye. Europa watches, listens, and plays in their immortal home, becoming acquainted with Jupiter's friends, Bacchus and Orpheus. As the confrontation between seductive, yet vengeful gods and innocent mortals unfolds, Europa grasps a greater sense of life and love in this revelatory modern-day retelling of Ovid's "Metamorphoses.
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| Film-Forward.comKent TurnerJust like in Handel's day (the operas Semele and Alcina), sex takes center stage for both gods and mortals. |
| Chicago ReaderBen Sachs[Honre'] does succeed, though, in conveying the joy of storytelling, which has made Ovid's work endure; the engagingly knotty structure is full of playful digressions and tales within tales. |
| StarburstJohn TownsendAs a work of art, Metamophoses carries many of the traits associated with highbrow French cinema, but never delivers on its ambitious premise. |
| Chicago Cinema CircuitDaniel NavaThere's something inexplicably rewarding about figuring and piecing Metamorphoses together, where the picture's psychosexual preoccupations bare such remarkable application to our contemporary concerns regarding heteronormative behavior... |
| User ReviewWS WChristophe Honoré's modern interpretation of Ovid's . It doesn't make any narrative sense, it's all about stream of consciousness. |
| User ReviewOlivier TThe guy that plays Zeus ( Jupiter) is the worst! |
| User ReviewJoe MChristophe Honoré's modern interpretation of Ovid's . It doesn't make any narrative sense, it's all about stream of consciousness. |
| User ReviewGrant SChristophe Honoré's modern interpretation of Ovid's . It doesn't make any narrative sense, it's all about stream of consciousness. |