Not For Everyone....

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2000)

....but oh, for those who get into it, it's better with every viewing. I actually didn't like EWS very much when I saw it in a theatre, but unlike most films I saw that year, this one haunted me for months afterwards, as every Kubrick film tends to do. Kubrick films demand repeat viewings; I bought the DVD and gradually got into this complex, glacial, occasionally magical film even more. It's not an easy film to access, but it's mesmerizingly adept with its music and photography. I can fault some of the overly mannered pacing, but overall the film offers more for the serious film viewer than other, admittedly less ambitious films. But it's not for everyone, and that's fine.