Snobbish and pretentious

Rating: 5/10 (6 October 1999)

I can only recognize the fact that the actors are more than competent, that, technically, the film answers to most professional standards, but, instead of what should have been a tender and strong (not necessarily contradictory) statement about human relationship throughout the decades, we end up with a pretentious and hollow exercise in good intentions. The ending is, to my view, embarrassing; the rest of the movie loses steam almost from the start. I guess the production took on a big, huge gamble: a professor and his different flocks intertwined with recent American history. Too much.