A Master Work of Art

Rating: 10/10 (7 February 2020)

Since 100s of thousands of people have already said the obvious -- that this greatest of masterpieces was beautifully written, acted, directed, and shot -- I'll add this. Period dramas generally try to hard to be accurate to the way people used language during that period, from very formal and stilted ways of speaking to rough and primitive language. But what almost always gets lost is the "right nowness" of language. This film tosses aside any pretence of "That's the way people spoke during that period" in favor of natural and plain language. And that's just one more of the thing that turns a great film into an unforgettable master work.