a pleasant surprise. tkywer likes playing with different visual styles (music video, naturalism, continuity), somewhat like herzog -  finding the style for the material rather than imprinting his "own" method on everything. the dissolve through the girl kissing the skier at the end was wonderful! i'm not quite certain how landscape effects characterisation in this film but it seems worth interpreting. about the only comparison i can draw among his 2 films i have seen is that he seems to have a healthy sense of irony. i wonder if he'll get that green card? ;)