A Different Kind of Love Story

Rating: 8/10 (7 March 2006)

I saw this and Tristan and Isolde in the same sitting and was delighted to find that both told very different love stories than what I, at least, am used to seeing in theaters these days, nor were they same story as one another. It's a love story that challenges you instead of just leaving you warm and snug.
Be prepared to dig in and buy in to an immersing experience. The film is long and even slow at times. It is intentional in its pacing, not haphazard. There were themes of being in a place, of experiencing a place and of waiting that some people may find frustrating. But I'd say the experience is one worth having. It is also the kind of movie, like Master and Commander, that you may not find to have a neat, satisfying ending. This is not a neatly gift-wrapped package, it is, at least in part, a true story with the complications that brings; it feels like a segment of the time-line cut out and rolled out for you to explore rather than a story constructed to fit neatly into a one paragraph synopsis.