Dizzying and overwhelmingly romantic

Rating: Null/10 (26 June 2001)

Seeing this movie from a completely technical viewpoint, it is spectacular. Lighting, camera shots, and scene transition are manipulated in a way meant to dazzle, and dazzle it does. Viewers race from scene to scene like fast forwarding through a walk in the air. Characters are spun like they're on a turntable, and colors swirl across the screen in a dizzying array. Quotes and clips from various love songs, both old and modern, are arranged as part of the dialougue, and when strung together actually are made to sound as a single, whole thought.
However, the storyline itself leaves much to be desired. It is a love story about writing a love story about the love story you see on the screen. And, honestly, beyond that there is very little to lead the story anywhere exciting. All paths are revealed in the first half hour, and then you can almost start the countdown to each "new development."
I do suggest that this movie requires one viewing, but wait for it to come out on video, for your sanity's sake.