A beautiful film

Rating: 10/10 (5 September 2005)

Tonight I watched this film for the first time in about ten years and I never really realized just how wonderful this film really is. It is very brilliantly written and brilliantly acted. The portrayal of the shaky relationship between Mozart and Salieri and Salieri's bitterness and jealousy is so well-done that you can almost feel the tension in the air. Hulce and Abraham do an excellent job of bringing a lot of poignancy and emotional depth to the psychologically self-destructive qualities of these two characters. You really feel what they're going through in this film. It is a film that is both tragic and stunningly beautiful. This is definitely a film that I will have to watch more than once a decade from now on.