Lovely, moving.

Rating: Null/10 (12 May 2001)

I strongly recommend this film. Aside from the beautiful score (which I'd heard before, and was one of my main motivations to see the film), it is an understated masterpiece visually and emotionally. The section set in Maoist China was particularly stirring, although I felt that the human characters in it were less fleshed out than in other scense...the violin is the character for which one feels the most compassion and anxiety. I admit that Samuel L. Jackson was an unusual casting choice, but I bought it. See this film if you are a music lover.