Classical

Rating: 10/10 (11 June 2006)

The french say "c'est le ton qui fait la musique". And this plot is classical Greek comedy, very much in the form of commedia dell'arte. Rarely, if ever, in the past 10 years have I so much enjoyed a movie that is about as close to lyric as it can get. Not Cyrano, nor The Fifth Element, not even The Sixth Sense had the precision and grace this plot and its actors achieve. It all moves as lightly and easily as a cloud, looking completely effortless, one moment here, the next gone. Every stitch of it fits the rhythm set out in the beginning, with unflinching logic it leads you to the end. And what would this end be? Now What? "and the rest, as they say, is history". Classical. Brilliant. Definitively worth collecting.