A stimulating and beautiful look at fantasy and life

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 1999)

This film used the exquisite cinematography that I think American movies have lacked over the past 20 years. It's so rare that an American movie uses closeups on a single face to show that there really is some emotion in the eyes of the actor. The subject matter was interesting as well, fantasy as a theme has never been played so well and it makes you think about what the title means to each character's role. The music was also fantastic, I might just be saying that because of my surprise that someone would take a piece of Shostakovitch to put in a movie other than Hamlet, Macbeth, or King Lear, but it was good