Review of See Holland Before It Gets Too Big

I have to disagree with the previous reviewers, who don't seem to be seeing this short film in the spirit intended. Maybe you had to be of a certain age, in a certain time, for its appeal to become apparent. It's a wordless journey of a young man, obviously idealistic, artistic, yearning -- as so many were in 1969 -- as he travels through Holland, envisioning the same mysterious young woman in various settings, evoking various eras, capture din his sketches & inner eye, but not on camera. Clearly she's his own idealized Eternal Feminine, what Jungians would call the Anima- his own soul, his dream of beauty & meaning -- projected onto the landscape. And perhaps she's also the embodiment of the land, at least as he experiences it. A lovely, Romantic, dreamlike film that couldn't be made in these more literal, imaginatively poor times today.