Quirky and brilliant. Excellent casting, dialogue and situational emotion. A true and sensitive story of C.S. Lewis, portrayed richly by Anthony Hopkins. Lewis wrote and taught and lectured about love and life and pain, but until he met an American divorcee he wasn't able to experience firsthand the fullness of these universals. An angel tries out the human experiment in order to experience love.
Pain comes along for the ride.
Offbeat story working off the tension of a silent desert wanderer, to rediscover his past, and to bring resolution through the reunion of his son and his wife. Lacking that, there was nothing left to recommend it. Another seventies tragedy, with the obligatory murder at the end merely punctuating a sad and relentless tale of a young woman drifting through life in San Francisco. This movie is made with style, however, its whole essence imbued with this scent of despair, this inescapable oppression, this noise and glitter and abuse. In this case, the movie far outdoes the book in carrying out the portrayal of a doomed life.