My brief review of the film

Rating: Null/10 (15 January 2005)

Addictive as well as engaging, this is the perfect soap opera: a romance film that is not only thoroughly entertaining but also enjoyably educational. The insight into Southern life is wonderful, and the film manages to capture excellently the experience of the Civil War and how it changed people. It is long, but as a result involving because the characters are constructed excellently and played by the cast dynamically. Olivia De Hallivand is especially good, and Vivien Leigh is the perfect lead. The Technicolor sets are delightful: an example of art direction with the focus truly on art. The film is so well done that even the special effects are remarkable for the time! This is one of the greatest epics ever produced, and an example (which has hardly ever been equaled) of how to make a flawless one.