Requires multiple viewings (at least two)

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2015)

Hello there, it seems that the audience of this movie either hates it or praises it. Many reviews do already cover the plot and the praise or the critic.
Therefore I won't go into details.
The problem with this movie simply is that it requires multiple viewings! When I first saw this movie in German (bad idea since it is dubbed) with a friend I was bored as hell.
In the end I thought that the costumes and locations where great, everything really looked like from that period but that there was no story and an annoying score.
How does it come I rate this with 10 and why should I tell you that this is probably the best movie I have ever seen together with Raging Bull, The Thin Red Line, Barry Lyndon etc.?
Like these movies it is very slow and requires you to love movies that much that you don't want to see a generic movie with a predictable boring story but rather have a realistic, emotional experience in a unique way.
If you watch this movie again and in original language please since Daniel's accent is one of the most important aspects of this movie (and quite balanced not like in Lincoln or Gangs of New York - no offense) you will find yourself wondering how the hell did they do it?
How the hell fits everything together, is believable and covers the problems of the current society and also of the human history that well without forcing it too much? How the hell did they make this masterpiece? I guess they couldn't answer it for themselves.