In rural France, a hunter encounters a god in the woods. He gets turned into a deer and shot by his fellow hunter. Europa is a teen girl who picks up truck driver Jupiter. He tells her about the time he turned Io into a cow.This is basically Roman mythology in the modern age. This movie faces many difficulty. Mostly, it is very static. The actors are amateurs. Jupiter should probably be older. He's like a dirty hipster in this. The main plot is rather static and meandering. The recollections only make it even more static in the narrative flow. Then it turns into a convoluted mess. It's hard to follow the characters and the stories. It's a lot of naked people doing who knows what. There is a fluidity in sexuality. That's the only compelling aspect in this movie after the initial Jupiter and Europe encounter. I just stop caring about the plot if there is one. I don't know much about the Greek myths. At least, I could figure out Mother! I don't know what's going on here.

Best international movie i have watched in a very long time, based upon one of my favorites, metamorphosis by ovid

Metamorphosis has a lot of nice earthy action in nature. Greenery is the same to any era, as is sex and human interaction between people young enough to deserve their carnal behavior. The stories of Ovid lend a legitimacy. But Honore adds a very homey French familiarity with the human body and it's activities missing from modern synthetic US cinema. I don't know if the film is really that good or I liked it so much because it has been too many years since my last roll in the hay.

I really liked this movie. The theme is of all times. It's about a young adolescent growing up and becoming an individual. She learns all kinds of symbolic life lessons through the Greek myths in which she gets involved. The friction between plain reason and raw instinct. The wish to avoid the vulnerability which makes one human. The metamorphoses of becoming a feeling human instead of wanting to be an untouchable God or getting lost in living your urges and becoming a wild man. It is subtle yet piercing because of the simplicity and plain message the scenes send out. It is unadorned and shows the human vulnerability in it's core. Beautiful.