TIME AND TIDE is a timeless favorite of sort. I find that films which I enjoy immensely on the first round, I tend to like less and less as the clock ticks. Films like OUATIC and SWORDSMAN I which conform to the code of perfectionism are easy to like, but they lay everything in front of the audience and thus do not engage the mind very much. On the other hand, films which are challenging enough to have me scratch my head, those tend to become more and more memorable with time. TIME AND TIDE is such a film which frustrated me on the first go, but I keep coming back to it year after year because there is something enchanting, enthralling about it. Thanks to the nearly unfathomable narrative, It has a touch of ambiguity, a sense of mysticism which continues to draw me in. Watching this creative cinematic puzzle for the n-th time now, the words of a great auteur rings to my ears: "I do not believe films are to be understood; they should be EXPERIENCEd."