This is a film that is among the very best I have ever seen. Seeing "Benjamin Button" the previous night and then this film has really changed my general disappointment with the whole movie-going thing in recent years. If this is a sampling of what will be coming, I am a reborn fan. If you have read Kite Runner or A Thousand Splendid Suns, this film does what the books do (and the film, Kite Runner, struggled with) - capturing a foreign world and what children may be facing when confronting the worst of it all. Great acting, great cinemotography, well written and directed. Just remarkable!
This film will keep your interest and connect with almost everyone in some way. A great love story that really does bring Gatsby to mind and to heart. Long on clock time, but like the movie, it is as if the clock is running backwards (or at least stands still). You are never bored. Great for men and women both and a movie you will root for when in comes time for the awards.