This is very entertaining and humanistic movie without any trace of lie in it.

Rating: 8/10 (6 November 1998)

This is a very good movie. It is not realistic, but rather a fairy tale, but you can feel a tragedy behind the tale. In some sense it is close to "Titanic" because it makes an entertainment from a great tragedy, but here there is no attemt to achieve crude realism, and for this reason the movie is much more truthful. Also, the contrast between comedy on the surface and the tragedy deep inside is so great, that it makes your mind be strangely divided between two contradictory feelings of laugh and anguish. I believe this is a mark of the great cinematography.
This is very entertaining and humanistic movie without any trace of lie in it.