A tremendous film

Rating: Null/10 (26 January 1999)

This film has to be one of the most moving films ever made, right up there with Schindler's List. The death of youth and innocence is realistic. The image of the butterfly has been reused again and again and yet it is still moving. The inclusion of comic moments, such as the encounter with the French girls and the revenge over Himmelstoss, make in a rounded film. The novel is amazing but so is the film. It should be made compulsory and should never be remade.