THE SECOND-BEST FILM OF ALL TIME

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 1998)

So much has been said and written about this film that it is hard to find any new and clever descriptives. After seeing it the first time last month, it catapulted into the Top 10 of my Favorite Films list. By the next afternoon, it had catapulted into the Top 5; a week later into the Top 3. I just saw the film again tonight and it has now jumped to the #2 spot (behind Cria Cuervos, a 1976 film by the renowned Spanish director Carlos Saura which also deals with a child's perspective of tragedy and loss). THERE HAS NOT BEEN ONE SINGLE DAY SINCE I SAW THIS FILM THAT I HAVE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT IT -- THE MARK OF TRUE CINEMA.