For me, the climax of the film, much written about and illustrated in the French cinema magazines, was a relatively successful failure, diverting to watch but as incapable as any other attempt I've seen of bringing inner voyage or acid trip to the screen. Minor "confession": in younger days, I experimented, as people then called it, with LSD, magic mushrooms and the like, but have read far too much of the hard psychology and neurobiology of all that since to be contented with anybody's attempts to convey hallucinogenic experience on celluloid.
You might enjoy the way Kounen tries it if you're into South American Indian art and snakes ... or you might yawn through it.
It's hard to imagine how 'Blueberry', released in France on February 11, will go down in the United States. It deserves to do well, but it's not very much like anything else I've seen to date. 7/10 in my book.