Quite simply...

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2001)

Quite simply the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. Even reading through others comments and remembering a film I haven't watched for nearly 20 years can still move me to tears. John Hurt is wonderful, but his performance is complimented perfectly by Anthony Hopkins and the viewer's own slow and gradual realisation that inside that deformed body is a truly beautiful soul struggling to know itself and communicate with the world it loves. Possibly the finest moment of cinema is the quiet dignity with which he removes the pillows from the bed to "sleep like a normal person" with full knowledge that the very act will kill him. So poignant, even the memory can bring on the tears.