Gripping

Rating: 9/10 (15 March 2014)

Colourful, shocking (in more ways than you would think but not gratuitously), amusing, entertaining, beautiful, thoughtful, inspiring - what more could you want from a movie? This film has all these features and more. It really is a tour de force of great story telling, incredible production values, superb acting and finely tuned directing. Tilda Swinton is absolutely fabulous as the grand Dame whose demise causes all the drama to unfold. Action packed, 'mythical' and grimly realistic in equal measure this sure is a 'fairy tale' for modern times. It's worth seeing once, twice and many more times there is so much to take in. A classic.