A US surrealistic film that can compete with "Northfork" (2003) and it is Raoul Ruiz directing it! For Ruiz fans the film percolates philosophy, art, unusual cinematographic camera angles, use of black and white sequences that turn into color, children (one claims to a 30 year old dwarf!), life of exiles (a New Yorker, who claims to be from L. A.) and politics (the major character Austin, played by the lovable Michael Kirby, is recognized as a Marxian writer of repute in the final sequence!), It is a fable of bloody knife injuries--the police and the ambulance are called--but they never are part of the film. The closest sequence is of a plain-clothesman (maybe he was not one) who checks a driver's license and then asks the driver to move on. Most importantly, the celebrated Ruiz directs two other famous directors as actors in small roles--Jim Jarmusch and Barbet Schroeder.