Enchanting

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2001)

Like many others who have read the book, I approached this film with some trepidation. I left the cinema having been moved as deeply as I had been by the book, and had Peter Jackson been in the foyer, I would have made a point of approaching him, shaking his hand and congratulating him (something I never do with people I do not know). To tread the fine line between fidelity to the original text and the creative initiative so necessary for a film masterpiece is something almost miraculous and certainly inspired.