What do you do when the thing you most wanted, so perfect, just comes?

Rating: 6/10 (16 August 2007)

A fascinating film that traces the history of a violin across 300 years from it's maker to some monks to a British aristocrat who likes to play the violin while he is having sex and a Chinese woman who risks her life to protect a violin from the martinets of the Cultural Revolution.
In the process the violin is buried, shot at, and burned before it's secrets can be discovered by Samuel L. Jackson. He desires this instrument and we have to wonder whether or not he ends up with it.
It is a remarkable story of perfection and greed amidst the hunger of the world. Is the beauty of a perfect violin worth more that the mouths it can feed?