Superb movie that has you hooked to the end

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2002)

This is a long slow movie, which gradually reveals the story around the fatal end of the lead characters' romance. The film is excellently structured so that you don't know the central event of the plot until the very end, and it manages to enthrall the viewer without keeping you in painful suspense as you learn more of the story. There are no good guys and bad guys, instead you end up feeling for all the characters, in an unusually touching sad ending. Everyone should see this once - but I doubt it can work the same magic for a second viewing.