I watched this in my art-faggish high school days when I thought I was all kinds of smart (I wasn't, High Schoolers are dumb by nature) so I remember shit about it except is was slow and gorgeous. I'll have to pick it up again now that I am not such a dumbass (I am still kind of a dumbass).
I've noticed that it's only in the past couple of years that I've gained the ability to appreciate really visual movies, like this. I don't mean Transformers lol I'm Willco visual; I mean movies that know how to use visuals subtley and in metaphor in the effort of making a movie with more depth. It's kind of cool that in movies, visuals can be both superficial and deep. Sometimes it even happens at the same, like in 2001, or (another example, though I would add caveats) The Fountain.
