Product: Snow Falling on Cedars (2000)
Rating: 5.0
BEST FILM OF 1999 - Haunting, sheer film poetry
As with my best film of last year, MEET JOE BLACK, reviews are pretty much split down the middle by those who did understand it and those who didn't. The latter hate it while an elite group love it. I was not expecting to be overwhelmed but I was. This is an intensely rich work of art which uses the best screen language from cinematography through editing, score and sound to create a haunting love story quite unlike any other I've ever seen. It is almost mythic and therefore no actor stands out - it's all a seamless fabric of emotion and beauty. I have given it my personal awards for BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTION, BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SCORE and BEST EDITING. For romantics it is heaven sent. We're a dying breed.