Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter

Yes, it is as great as the title suggests. and so much more...it's on netflix

This movie pulls at least three masterstrokes. I didn’t connect all the stars at once. But if you follow you remember and imagine what has happened, somewhere under a cloudy southern sky, reflected on a swimming pool presently from some time ago.

This movie has been compared to six or seven other works of film and literature. I haven’t seen any of them. I know this one is better, whatever. There is much discourse about meaning and memory, and how to piece certain things together, as if sticking a camera on a bait bucket would drop a line off a boat called Emotion, into the deep Lake of Hearts.

What the writer director-director has captured with his debut feature – first introduced to lucky surfers as two serialized short films in 2007, and then international film festival recognition – is a moving photograph of how the currents influence the water’s surface of that lake.

There is much to please here. From high, the action follows naked men pissing in the wind, disappearing below deck, finding treasure, repealing suicide and murder, trading escape for disorientation, until a resolution brings satisfaction, discovery swallows hope and derangement.

Deep underneath, a second story swishes along as the protagonist seeks a hook in which to be pulled into the world above the water, if only to land in a boat from where overseers once dived.

There is a third story, but I don’t want to give too much away. This is my favorite movie. I am excited because it comes out today.

Lovely By Surprise. USA. Written and directed by Kirt Gunn. Cinematography by Steve Yedlin. Music by Shelby Bryant. Edited by Jimmy Helton. Starring Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Austin Pendleton, Dallas Roberts, Reg Rogers, Kate Burton, Richard Masur and Lena Lamer. 1 hour 40 minutes. Not rated by the MPAA.