Review: Rob Tregenza's 'Gavagai' is a beautiful, melancholy journey through loss and its aftermath
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Aug 13, 2018
3 minutes
A story of implacable grief, unlikely companionship and stunning landscapes, "Gavagai" is as beautifully singular a movie as I've seen all year. You know you're in for something different in the opening moments, as a train pulls quietly into a deserted station in Telemark, Norway, and disgorges a German traveler, Carsten (Austrian actor Andreas Lust), who stumbles out with a troubled look on his face and a solemn stream of voice-over in his head.
A small, anguished drama of indecision plays out: The man walks some distance,
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