A Stunning Achievement

Rating: Null/10 (28 April 1999)

You will either love this film or hate this film. It is impossible to be indifferent to this movie. This is one sign of great art. A generation from now, this film will be considered a classic, misunderstood in its own time, and likely thought of as one of the finest films ever made. It is a towering achievement of filmed poetry, a war movie equal in its own way to the war poems of Stephen Spender.