Reviews

I can't really justify the 10/10 points, except to say that the movie deserves the 'boost'. Most people-centered movies are somehow lesser the the book that came before them. Here is an interesting drama, dealing with human relations, politics and violence in an honest way, using the visual possibilities to help the story, and one of those that enables the viewer a feel 'participating' in the story.

The acting is the first reason, in my opinion, for this success.

Anita Shreve is the second. After giving us a good story to read, she was involved in making the movie, and all minor adaptations made, did not make the story secondary to the 'moving pictures' effect.

I saw the movie first, years ago, read the book lately, and then found a copy of the movie to view it again. Than I saw that professional critics almost ignored it, and Users too (and usually most user reviews comes from the extreme sides...). So I decided to write this not exactly review myself...

I do not write reviews, and I know my review will not be read much, because what is called 'Foreign-films' pages are rarely visited by English speaking visitors. Since this funny movie was grossly misjudged by the public, I overrated it slightly for compensation. I will just add this is an intelligent romantic comedy which is not very common, full of enjoyable characters and events. Extremely lovely and entertaining !