2 hours of pure beauty

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2004)

Having read some of the user comments, I felt I had to write a review to ensure that people take the time to watch this film.
I find it interesting that anyone could describe this film as boring. Perhaps it is, if you think "The Fast and the Furious" is the greatest film of all time.
There is not a superfluous moment within this film...it is obvious that intense planning has created a film which appears to move freely. Every shot is beautiful, necessary, inspired. The central performances are simply stunning, and the relationship between the two is gorgeous and real. No, it is not a Hollywood-style love story...and we can all be thankful of that. Central to the film is the concept of the need for support in a disorientating environment...it is a story of the line between friendship and love, far more realistic than I have ever seen on screen before.
Moreover, the film sucessfully blends humour, beauty, longing, sadness...an entire emotional spectrum. I think one of the biggest problems with these films is that it has been marketed as a feel-good romantic comedy, and that is not the case. It is impossible to define...it does indeed make you feel good, but not in the trite manner of most Hollywood fodder. It is romantic and funny, but in a realist sense.
I cannot urge you strongly enough to watch this film. The only people that dislike it are the ones with too short an attention span and too little life experience to understand it.