I’m with everyone above. Had to keep my eyes closed. This is such extraordinarily rich music that visual imagery can only diminish it – and this stuff was an embarrassment. Messiaen was first and last a church musician, something like more than half a century on the bench at Sainte Trinite, and to separate his work from his faith (as the program notes seemed to do by leaving out the specific biblical referents of each movement) is to betray an extraordinary ignorance of this musician. My reaction to the film was not unlike my reaction to those various ads over the years that use something like the Mozart or the Verdi Requiems to sell cars. To use M’s music as a sound track for anything would be diminishing; to use it for this interminable stretch of cliches (bunnies! tigers! slow-motion eating! acres of trash!) was a travesty. And particularly, given what a terrific performance this was! The pianist was extraordinary, the percussionists amazing, the first horn truly out of this world. So, as long as I kept my eyes closed, I was in heaven. Quite the opposite when otherwise…