Beautifully crafted, thoroughly engaging

Rating: 9/10 (21 October 2018)

I love a story that doesn't pretend to be a documentary, that says what it has to say in a straightforward manner but with considerations of the heart leading with every step. The scenarios and outcomes it depicts are realistic - not that they would play out in the same way in ordinary life, where the details of daily life are far more pressing than they can ever be in fiction. I am often turned off many recent movies as they are trying to depict real situations in convincing ways which really only relate to the screenwriter's manner of being convinced, or else movies are so far into the liberty of fiction you end up in animated special-effect nonsense land, whether it be the acting, the script or the sheer visuals.
Love conquers death. This is a movie of hope. The hope is not a laundered hope, and that contrasts wonderfully with this well laundered film.
I would have given it 10 stars but there was a little punch or something missing to it. I'll probably find it in the next viewing.