Viewers Beware: Jem Cohen’s New Film, ‘Little, Big, and Far,’ Is Not What It First May Seem

Viewers Beware: Jem Cohen’s New Film, ‘Little, Big, and Far,’ Is Not What It First May Seem

Once an artist trades in duplicity, the trick — and, potentially, the magic — is to sustain the illusion. Here is a lovely film flawed, not fatally but decisively, by its maker’s hubris.