Set in the Fifties in the wilds of Montana, Northfork tells of a town about to be flooded to make way for a new Hydro-electric project.

Residents in the area are given good money for their homes, but some folk don't want to leave, so the government send in agents, an evacuation committee, six distinctive men, dressed in distinctive dark suits, hats and coats, to use whatever means possible to persuade and cajole the populace into moving out. Amongst the stalwarts resisting change are a loving couple, a seemingly mad chap with his own Noah's ark and a child who believes he's an angel and can see spirit beings.

Northfork, a story of death and re-birth, has a dreamlike quality throughout. With a style that is eccentric and wryly engaging, the Polish brothers have come up with a surreal comedy drama that has a timeless quality to it, whilst also being a film about a particular time in these peoples' lives. It is also the final part of a trilogy that began with their previous films, Twin Falls Idaho and Jackpot.

This isn't going to be for everyone. Some might find its deadpan humour and gently offbeat dialogue too meandering, but those prepared to stick with it, perhaps fans of the brothers, or of James Woods and Daryl Hannah, might find Northfork a rewardingly elegiac experience, as I did eventually, especially when the angelic child's imagination yields a truly magical pay-off in the film's final moments.