Liverpool

If you know the films of Lisandro Alonso, the Argentine equivalent of Bela Tarr, you are almost certainly a dedicated connoisseur of art cinema, and you will likely be enthralled by Liverpool, a gorgeously shot and meticulously composed meditation on how humans choose to distract themselves from the perplexities of life with the banalities of living. But if you are in the vast majority of people who are unfamiliar with Alonso, and if you have never been titillated by the possibility of combining observational cinema with storyboards, then there is little to recommend in this film, outside of its intense visual splendor. Liverpool follows a semi-pathetic...