Just when your hope is gone.....

Rating: 10/10 (23 March 2010)

I really wasn't ready for the emotional impact of this magical story.
It happened to combine loss, yearning, romance and music into a touching bittersweet fairytale. But a fairytale that you so want to believe in.
Freddie Highmore drew you into the sensual world of a lonely neglected child desperate to create beautiful things. Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Keri Russell were well suited as sincerely in love lovers and Robin Williams was a surprise portraying the obligatory 'bad guy' alternatively lashing out with cynicism then touching vulnerability.
The fateful coincidences are the kind you dream of when you think your loss is to be born forever.
And as if that wasn't enough, the aural feast was a soundtrack worthy of an Oscar.
This film made me want to try.