A Perfect Film.

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2008)

This is a film which throughout, leaves you completely lost as to where it will take you next. It is at once stunningly beautiful, poetic, intelligent, ground-breaking and epic. The mesmerising direction and cinematography occasionally reach the poetic heights of Tarkovsky at his best and the wonderful soundtrack by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood leaves you with the breathlessness of some of the finest Bernard Herrmann scores. The presence of Arvo Part's 'Fratres' on the soundtrack was also a joyful surprise. Its epic scope of storytelling is of biblical scale and whispers 'rosebud, rosebud!' and I urge you with with every cinema loving bone in my body to see this film and fall in love with its genius. I haven't even mentioned the wonderful performances. Just see it and drink in some of the finest cinema in 30 years. If is fails to win Best Picture we will look back and wonder how it happened.... just a wonderful film.