If you loved I Do...Knot, try Simon of the Desert
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to I Do...Knot, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Simon of the Desert is
A desert ascetic’s spiritual Zoom call with the heavens is interrupted by the devil’s Slack messages. Forty feet up a pillar in 5th-century Syria, Simon waits for a sign neither God nor the tempter seems eager to send. Six takes later, the reels run out.

