It's a masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2019)

I've re-watched this film every few years since it came out. Besides stunning cinematography, the story line is beautifully told. The story follows the unlikely friendship between a Jesuit and a repentant slave trader and how each man decides to react to impossible circumstances among the original peoples in South America, before Spanish colonization and Portugese slave trading ruined this garden of eden. Jeremy Irons and Robert de Niro. And the deft hand of Roland Joffe. It doesn't get much better than that.