A Completely Enjoyable Experience

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2001)

This film was a complete experience of expectation, thrill and final realization. The director certainly took his time to develop the story fully, and to me, that requires a high degree of patience and confidence. The end result is worth it all. If he had rushed into it, it would have been an entirely different kind of film - probably one that would have relied more on the visual aspect instead of the thinking aspect of the story line as in here.
And Nicole Kidman was an excellent choice. She's beautiful as the mother and she has not disappointed with her performance. I saw this film after I had seen Moulin Rouge and so I carried a certain level of expectation of her here. She was certainly impressive there and just as much here. I didn't really notice her at all previously; I kind of remember her in Batman but there was really not much there to remember anyway. She has changed for the better as far as I'm concerned.
And to complement it all, the supporting roles were excellently played too. The children were beautiful and the nanny Mrs. Mills were creepy as she should have been in particular.
Well, I look forward to the next film by this Chilean director.