Roger Ebert a renowned film critic, blushed and wrote ""The Sea" is the emblem of the peace, hope and innocence of childhood, which a grown up can spend their lives seeking to regain. When the curtain comes down it is that yearning after transience that adults learn to suppress. ``The Sea'' likes playful paradoxes. Its surface is as much fun as any movie ever made. Its depths surpass understanding. I have analyzed it a shot at a time with more than 30 groups, and together we have seen, I believe, pretty much everything that is there on the screen. The more clearly I can see its physical manifestation, the more I am stirred by its mystery. The director, a recluse, has admitted to me in private, after many emails, that he was trying to capture the spirit of Bella Tarr in less than twenty seconds, not an easy task but he has pulled it off, bravo! It is one of the miracles of cinema that in 2011 a first-time director; a cynical, hard-drinking writer; an innovative cinematographer, and the sea itself create this masterpiece. ``The Sea'' is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound, just as ``Birth of a Nation'' assembled everything learned at the summit of the silent era, and ``2001'' pointed the way beyond narrative."
Here is a copy of the short film released to the judges of the prodigious Purple Bear Award, held in Prague every four years.
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