Pandaemonium

Easily one of the finest and most sophisticated films of the year.

Temple doesn't just highlight the contemporary relevance of Coleridge's liberated words and themes, he shows us how high they still soar.

Literate and handsome.

As a visual counterpart to some of the most sublime verse ever written, it's often thrilling.

Never quite dull, neither does it ever find a viable rhythm, narrative arc or crux of emotional engagement.

Apart from the historical eminence of the poetry itself, Pandaemonium is about nothing much at all.

Pandaemonium plays like a bus-and-truck version of such Ken Russell's '60s classics as "The Music Lovers."