One or two worthwhile moments

Rating: 5/10 (6 March 2005)

One or two worthy moments where some tension, sensitivity, cool imagery and feisty violin fingering come together nicely. The story lacks the serious cohesion though to make it anything special: the fundamental narrative concept is good enough to be thought-provoking over a pint, but not enough to build a feature-length movie. It tries to shore itself up with the love story, but as the big narrative secrets come out they're not surprising enough, and left me unfulfilled.
I also felt the handling of Noah's character was a little irresponsible. There's only so much you can pin on the village idiot, surely?