Weird, creepy, pretentious, borderline nonsensical, kinda racist, and every character is an absolute dick to every other character. I don't get how anyone could consider this movie "romantic." It's about a macho alpha male who thinks he's entitled to a woman's body, a cuckold moron who turns psycho in the last act so we feel better about him ending up with nothing, and a woman who falls in love in with a rapist and then decides to kill herself, ignoring how this would affect her daughter. All of the characters except the daughter suck as human beings. Yes, the movie has excellent music and cinematography, but that's not enough when the characters are downright offensive.
A movie absurdly beautiful in every sense, whether in photography that is impeccable, especially for the year that was produced. In fact, the soundtrack that is literally the soul of the film in the form of musical notes... Lovely.
It was building up to be a potentially amizingly good film...
a tragic or triumphant love story commenting on the disconnect by people that could "hear" the arts and would want to dedicate their lives to it, and those that don't, but it turned into something else when the Sam Neill character either telepathically or as a hallucination started to "hear" the arts, or at least hear the pianist and decided to let her go. It made the love story/freedom cheap when it wasn't won, but handed over. Yes, the mutilation prior to that was turning it towards a more tragic outcome, but it was to be a "meaningful" outcome, instead of what ended up feeling quite meaningless, even with regards to the subtext of "hearing the arts". Did it become a story about the Sam Neill's characters path to "hearing the arts" instead of the love story? In any way it seemed to lose meaning and memorability with that turn of events.Makes one suspect of a "hands on, but illiterate studio exec"-syndrome.
Excellent photography, and excellent music. Of course, Michael Nyman making beautiful music as always. The performances are excellent, Anna Paquin is annoying as hell, a deserved oscar... And the story is great, the climax is dark, and so the ending. Beautiful movie, highly recommended.
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Muddy movie!danisanna
Something very different than other movies.filmyjo
We have heard love is blind...well, here it is dumb and dark!Paravail
Weird, creepy, pretentious, borderline nonsensical, kinda racist, and every character is an absolute dick to every other character. I don't get how anyone could consider this movie "romantic." It's about a macho alpha male who thinks he's entitled to a woman's body, a cuckold moron who turns psycho in the last act so we feel better about him ending up with nothing, and a woman who falls in love in with a rapist and then decides to kill herself, ignoring how this would affect her daughter. All of the characters except the daughter suck as human beings. Yes, the movie has excellent music and cinematography, but that's not enough when the characters are downright offensive.ClassicLady
Beautiful cinematography. Wonderful acting by all.Lemonball679
Well directed, with great artistic flair. Found it a little predictable and desperate in a sense. However it has some great performancesRubi
A movie absurdly beautiful in every sense, whether in photography that is impeccable, especially for the year that was produced. In fact, the soundtrack that is literally the soul of the film in the form of musical notes... Lovely.avatud2013
This will mostly be spoilers.It was building up to be a potentially amizingly good film...
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Excellent photography, and excellent music. Of course, Michael Nyman making beautiful music as always. The performances are excellent, Anna Paquin is annoying as hell, a deserved oscar... And the story is great, the climax is dark, and so the ending. Beautiful movie, highly recommended.Varvarka
A woman fate is such hard...george4mon
good film, but i thought the soundtrack was a bit annoying ,overused and didn't fit theRowky
Love it soooo much!?Skyscore
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