Exquisite

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2007)

This movie is many things. First and foremost it is a powerful and emotional movie which if viewed by an active viewer will shake them to their core. It explores love, and mortality in ways no other film I've ever seen has. Secondly it is the most aesthetically beautiful film I've ever seen. Their have been a lot of advances in technology in film over the past decade, this is the first movie I've ever seen that has used that technology to create an emotional and dramatic effect instead of just a shock and awe spectacle. The movie is out of sequence and is hard to follow at times. But if you wait for the conclusion the film reveals itself and any confusion you had initially was well worth the culmination of the three story lines at the end. Hugh Jackman has an intensity that I couldn't imagine another actor bringing to the part while Rachel Weis is ethereal. I have trouble ranking this in terms of other movies I've seen because there are no films that are like it. Hopefully that will change.