IMDb
6.8 /10
747 votes


Drama · Family · Music · Fantasy · 2000 · 39 min
A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.
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IMDb
6.8 /10
747 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
The tomato isn't ripe
55 /100
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TMDB
7.1 /10
31 votes
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Weighted average
6.5/10