What's the point of a great movie if you can't watch it?

Rating: Null/10 (4 February 2003)

I left this movie after about 10 minutes with an intense headache. Not only the handheld camera but the rapid cuts among several threads were extremely bothersome, even if they didn't make me sick. Also, the words are difficult to understand not only because of the accents, but because the sound is terrible; it's very muddy, so that you'd never be able to hear what's being said no matter how loud you turn it up. I don't think I'd understand the words even if they were spoken by Americans.
I don't doubt other peoples' comments that it's a very moving film, but it seems like a wasted effort if it's difficult to impossible to watch. Sort of like the Dogma films, which were similarly often good stories ruined by (intentionally) bad cinematography and sound (though at least when shown here they have subtitles).