A highly unusual film by Tim Burton

Rating: 6/10 (30 July 2009)

Sleepy Hollow is a great example of an entertaining film which takes us all back into past times where it was absolutely impossible to provide a rational explanation regarding certain obscure,occult events. This film is set in a time when murders were a common event and it was practically impossible to get hold of the criminal.It must be stated that it is a pure coincidence that this Tim Burton film shares a lot of stylistic similarities with a famous yet not so well known French film "Un Roi Sans Divertissement" directed by François Leterrier.It is difficult to say which of the two films is better but due to the advent of huge media publicity,it can rightly be assumed that Tim Burton's film made in 1999 appealed to more people then that of François Leterrier's film made in 1963.Sleepy Hollow would turn out to be an important film for all the admirers of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton as it will give them a good idea of how both of them prepared for their future individual endeavors "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street".A must for all the lovers of Jean Giono and Washington Irving