terrifyingly sentimental

Rating: Null/10 (19 October 1999)

In a world post-Holocaust, post-Schindler's List (1993), it takes naked ambition to attempt a film of this vision, let alone naked talent in succeeding in that.
In many ways the film is not about, what after all constitutes only half the running time or so, the horror of the holocaust (it leaves that to our schooling). It is rather about the capacity of a man to court and wed his "Princess", to raise their son, and to fill the lives of his loved ones with continual joy, in spite of the evil which oppresses them from without, and even to his death.
Terrifyingly sentimental.