"Olivier Mille's La liturgie de crista professes to be neither a comprehensive study, nor provide a chronological biography, but this 1997 film goes a long way to conveying the richness of Messiaen's creativity and the paradox of being simultaneously central to 20th-century musical thought and atypical of it ... The extensive extra clips of interviews with other composers and musicians are invaluable, if, like the subtitles, a little haphazard in presentation".