I agree. The cast was superb. The music exquisite. The setting wonderful. This is one of the best films I've ever seen; why it was overlooked at the Oscars I'll never know.
What I noticed is that they never say "I love you" - they simply ask each other for forgiveness right at the end. It had a melancholic beauty to it that is indeed soul shattering.
This song was stuck in my head after the film ended. Was great. Watched it because I loved period pieces, but ended up identifying with both of them at different points. Getting old at 31.😢
What a tragic, beautiful movie! So many lessons of learning how to love the unknown! It was a relationship between the couples and also the growing respect the doctor and the natives had for each other in a country ravished with disease.
Saw this recently, wasn't until the very end that I really connected with the characters. A poignant ending to the movie made all the moreso by this lovely piano piece.
One of the best films I've ever seen compared, for example, to Out of Africa. Never understood why it didn't receive an Oscar. The actors, the photography, the story, the music all exquesite. A sweet/sad story
this is my favorite piece. it is so so so beautiful. seriously, it haunts me, some nights i even dream about this song. its so clear and clean and beautiful and just all good thing and happy but theres also a haunting sound in the background, especially when the violins started playing. you know exactly that its not gonna end well, but you still try to hold in to the beauty of the bad thing. because there definitely is a beauty in them. it sometimes feels so good and you just try to avoid the bad side and try to run away from it, but it will always follow you and the outcome is even more magnificient.
One of my all time fave movies...I really loved Edward Norton and Naomi Watts in this great movie...I love the final part when Kitty (in an exquisite way) sends to hell Charlie...great great story!!!! I love it!!!!!!
Merveilleux film et les musiques sont enchanteresses... Sans parler des acteurs si beaux et profonds dans leurs rôles respectifs.... Un pur moment de bonheur et d'émotion.
The fine shower had transformed into an adamant rain. Pietra,emotionlessly and numb looked on as he put on his hat and grabbed the brown leather suitcase from the paving stone ground,ready to get on board. She didn’t look up for a few seconds… He was waiting for something. Her eyes had stopped. She had just noticed something quite trivial. The paving stone was wet and slippery. The water drops falling from the sky fell to the cold ground with such violence they seemed to splash into the air in a thousand droplets. That was exactly how she felt. Broken all over the floor trying desperately to mend herself right back together. The water although gone in all directions on the ground below her,almost magically seemed to find itself again and peacefully turn into a small flood running down the street,carelessly ignoring everything that had just happened! The violence of the fall,the cold floor,the going from whole to broken, the painful,irregular and uncertain way ahead. She looks at him. Wordless. She turned away. He’d never see her face again. He’d never know how she felt. His eyes looking at her wet face would never be able to tell the tears from the rain!
Christ Is Risen He grabbed the suitcase and forced himself not to look back. Water pounded his skin, soaking his clothes. He knew that she was upset. Knew from the way she didn't quite look up from the pavement. Knew it from the way she watched each drop explode into a million fragments, like glass being dropped. He knew it pained her, this trip. Knew that she was like one of the drops of water from the sky. So frail, so perfect and beautiful, and so sorrowfully tragic all at the same time. It wasn't fair. He could try to say something, try to bridge the void that had grown between them. But what was the point. He wouldn't mean what he said, and she would not listen anyway. They both knew that going into this relationship would end in sorrow. Yet they had done it anyway, blind fools that they were. They were like the drops of rain, rushing towards the pavement. No way to stop it, no way to prepare for it. No way to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives when it was all over. He glanced at her face and wondered if the streaks of water were from the rain alone. If she too were silently weeping for the loss of innocence, the loss of passion. But of course, there was no way to tell the tears from the rain.
Liszt? Yes. But its SATIE that Desplat imitates again and again in his scores, especially on tunes for solo piano. But, like every movie composer, its Wagner who is heard and felt throughout in those gut wrenchingly beautiful harmonics and chromaticism.
so im playing this song because theres a hurricane outside. Its flooding. the wind is raging 25 mph. Yet im calm. Because I remember when the song played in the movie: when there was sadness, great loss, and such great joy.
The music for this movie is so gorgeous. But the movie made Walter's death so much more painful than the book... it gave me false hope for the future of their relationship! TT^TT
