Quote:
"What elevates the film [Mouvements du désir] from its studied conventionality [...] is the extended iconographic presentation of landscape and the use of the train, whose own relentless passage both contains and parallels the narrative movements of desire."
-- Brenda Longfellow

Source:
Longfellow, Brenda. "Gender, Landscape, and Colonial Allegories in The Far Shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du désir." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 179)