It's all the things I want in film: politically and artistically challenging, Art=Politics, self-aware (i.e., transparent), emotionally moving, brutally personal (it invites me to relate Munch's story with specific events and people and emotions in my own life), freeform, jazzy, out-of-sync, out-of-wack, out-of-time and yet time-less, complex, un-hectoring, un-obvious, made with human feeling, aware of its subject's limitations when it comes to the lower-class and to women, aware of its subject's exceeding romanticism when it comes to the lower class and to women, brutally critical yet not wholly dismissive (a distance that's not quite objective), roving, roaming, wandering, refusing to distinguish between past-present-future, non-thesis-driven, warm, tender, bitter, dejected, cathartic, and just plain beautiful. And that's the tip of the iceberg.