just lovely

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2004)

Trying to recall specific detail as time - the ultimate memory eraser - moves forward and away from this past Sunday evening, when I watched this in the theater. This movie influenced me to call out of work on Monday, in need of a 'mental health day' (take only one or two days off per year). That was quite a reaction for me. I watch many a film - at least one daily...from foreign classics, classic 70's flicks, silents, to 'obscure' noir and the such. However, it was this movie that has prompted me to want to live/watch less movies/appreciate my husband/etc., etc./think a bit more and breathe. I wasn't at all a fan of the Kaufman sensibility, certainly not a fan of most contemporary filmmaking. But without hesitation, I will recommend this film. I personally feel that Gondry did a magnificent job in scupting the visual aspect upwards, outwards, inwards - the direction was definitely harmonized and proportionate to the complexities of the script. This film buoys the viewer within the heart and the head. [I am quite perturbed by the reviewer of 4.3 who disdains those who love and/or appreciate the film as having no education other than the modern pop-culture stuff and therefore in turn having no valid opinion or privilege to discern a movie as interesting, impactful, or astonishing, we all must be scorned.]
Anyway. This was a masterpiece in every way. I will see it again this week and will bring as many people with me as possible, because it is a gift to the soul...and it seems for those who really connected with it, a sort of mirror. 9/10 (subject to change upon repeat viewings, but I expect it to ultimately be 10/10 in my book)