There's plenty here to delight cinephiles.

So taken with its own love of cinema, it forgets to lead you down the necessary dramaturgical path to make you fall in love, too.

A movie that longs for a return to a cinema that, rather than marketing, merchandise and corporate synergy, is about the mysteries that flicker to life after the lights go down.

Reveals an immense gift for storytelling that blends sentimental quirkiness with wry satire.