Elegant and rich in its depth and restraint.
Everything about it has an understated sureness of what is being presented. As "Titanic" used the oceanliner and its inevitable fate as the backdrop in a deeper story - albeit a fictional one, so does this movie use its own backdrop as a fulcrum of sorts for several forays into the pathways of human experience.
As always, stories of humanity, no matter how well the visuals are conceived and presented, will fall flat and lifeless if the *characters* are not on a par with the screenplay and look. No worries: these main stars have never disappointed before and most certainly do not here! And the young actor, somehow, and unexpectedly - well, he's about as good as it gets, and his scenes with Fiennes are golden.
We've all seen movies that we users basically like a lot, yet contradict the terrible scores from critics - "Hillbilly Elegy " anybody? - but when both user reviewers and critics are agreeing and are saying the same things, it's a pretty safe bet you will not be wasting your time. Imho it is especially true of this movie.
Everything about it has an understated sureness of what is being presented. As "Titanic" used the oceanliner and its inevitable fate as the backdrop in a deeper story - albeit a fictional one, so does this movie use its own backdrop as a fulcrum of sorts for several forays into the pathways of human experience.
As always, stories of humanity, no matter how well the visuals are conceived and presented, will fall flat and lifeless if the *characters* are not on a par with the screenplay and look. No worries: these main stars have never disappointed before and most certainly do not here! And the young actor, somehow, and unexpectedly - well, he's about as good as it gets, and his scenes with Fiennes are golden.
We've all seen movies that we users basically like a lot, yet contradict the terrible scores from critics - "Hillbilly Elegy " anybody? - but when both user reviewers and critics are agreeing and are saying the same things, it's a pretty safe bet you will not be wasting your time. Imho it is especially true of this movie.
