Awesome

Rating: 10/10 (21 June 2004)

A perfect example of how a great script carries the movie through along with the most apt choice of actors. Bogart is brilliant and Bergman is arguably the most beautiful actress to have graced the silver screen. Bogart's characteristic dialogue delivery coupled with a well matched background score add to the atmosphere of a romance gone bad in the midst of the war. The genius of Casablanca lies in the fact that instead of introducing many characters, the makers of the movie have concentrated on just a few and developed them completely in the movie. At the end you feel as if you know Bogart, Bergman, the French detective and even Sam, the piano player. One of the best movies ever made - only to be matched 53 years later by the greatest movie of all time - Pulp Fiction.