This is the first film I have posted in a while that I am actually going to give a low rating to. I blame my general positive attitude on very pruned selection (my own and Elliot’s) through increased Netflix usage. This one snuck onto the list somehow and while it did win the 1997 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film… it just doesn’t do it for me.
I can’t quite explain why, it was mostly well filmed, the plot was somewhat interesting, but in the end the storytelling guise led to what was in my mind an incredibly disappointing and anticlimactic ending. Also, in someways the film was just too simple, too straight-forward, too neat.
I think we will have to head back to more closely following the Chlotrudis list which Character is notably absent from.
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