Finding perfection

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 2004)

A simply beautiful and touching film that brought tears of joy and melancholy. Script, performance and direction working as one to bring a magical cinema visit. Not a genuine drama and no more so a biopic of J M Barrie's life, this film takes a look at the times and influences that shaped the writer's penning of Peter Pan. Marc Forster has done a fantastic job and it seems that for the performers it was a labour of love as they infuse every scene with beauty and majesty. Kate Winslet, Julie Christie and the rest of the cast are uniformly excellent but it is Johnny Depp to whom the greatest plaudits must go. I feel he is unsurpassed as an actor who chooses his roles with great integrity. Not for him the easy and lucrative route of blockbuster movies (save for his work in Pirates.. which MADE it a smash), Depp is alone in taking such risks.