this movie made my day

Rating: 10/10 (2 July 2012)

it had everything that i want from a movie. seeing it made my day, like seeing any good art does.
1. beautiful cinematography. The 16mm quality, the saturated warm colors and the 1960s retro props are really stunning and beautiful. the actors are not standardly pretty, they have interesting faces. the camp setting was so nostalgic and really conveyed the feeling of a memory of a childhood.
2. good acting. there is no overacting here. the kids were fantastic and so real. the casting of the stars was perfect from Bruce Willis to Tilda Swinton.
3. great story. it bordered on the surreal and had that quality of a fairytale - where not everything is realistic and it doesn't really matter because it's a movie and anything can happen. it was a deep story about the human character - sinister, complex and innocent at the same time.