3/11, 12:30 PM Camera 12

Some Cinequest movies are likely to provoke either love or hate, and “New York Decalogue” is one of those. This is a quiet film, mostly without dialog, which paints brief but revealing portraits of several very different New Yorkers whose lives are more interconnected than is obvious at first. I found the film as a whole surprisingly lacking in subtlety, but some of the individual sections are very moving and beautiful. The acting is excellent across the board, even in the segments where it isn’t entirely clear what’s going on. If you enjoy thoughtful art-house films without a lot of plot, this is a must-see. If you like your stories to actually be stories and not rough groupings of snapshots, you’d be better served elsewhere.