Beautiful film, but overly long

Rating: 7/10 (11 December 2008)

Saw the Australian Premier last night, and a beautiful well crafted film, but it felt overly long, with too much time spend in the hospital with dying Daisy. The story of Benjamin is the real story here and the screen comes alive during his story.
I was really moved with the trailers, but not so much with the actual film, mostly I think because of the length of the film, almost three hours.
This is well worth the effort, and everything in other posts is very detailed and accurate. The time and effort taken to craft this film from the beginning is really evident and well deserving of the award nominations it will certainly garner.