An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

Mr. Nance turns his thought into a performance of vulnerability that’s all too relatable in its indulgences. It has heart without becoming cloying.

A playfully self-reflective rumination on what writer-director Terence Nance has described as "self-awareness through experience with love."

Terence Nance’s playfully experimental feature An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty is both stunning and stymieing — a film so effusive that it’s hard to separate its signal from its noise.

As the work of one young man bursting with inspiration, the film is a giddy thing to absorb, allowing complete strangers to witness someone performing open-heart surgery on himself.

The film is complex and bold, sometimes even exhilarating. It can also be frustratingly esoteric.

As a wry, knowing narrator guides us in and out of their symphonic affair, there’s no doubt the trip is worth it.

A frustratingly ungraspable movie collage compiled with real visual flair.