A Beaut

Rating: 9/10 (5 May 2019)

Two decades later this remains one of the top ten dramas of all time. It's not just a beauty and work of art, but is Mendes' masterpiece. Excellent direction, screenplay, cinematography, score and acting. Suvari, Spacey, Birch, Bentley, Bening and Cooper deliver phenomenal performances. The plot revolves around a man going through a mid-life crisis or perhaps just wanting to live a new life from a different perspective which he passed on to live a conventional lifestyle. Along this journey he revisits his youth, comes to terms with his wife's infidelity and tries to connect with his daughter and others around him. The film is funny, insightful, dramatic, heartwarming and has a tremendous ending. It is memorable, unique and makes the viewer question life or their own life in general.