Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (26 January 2008)

Incoherent plot, jumpy story flow. Characters are all under developed. This is not a first class movie experience.
The main element of the story has completed in the first 45 minutes of the pre-war story. The whole thing happened during war time is pretty much irrelevant. Characters stopped develop in those scenes and only simply walk around and day dreaming about the past.
Some good things about this movie are cinematography, costume and art direction which worked together nicely and gave you an authentic WWII period feel. This is evident in that this movie is nominated in all these 3 categories for Oscar this year.