Despite of a popular success reception at the release,
Despite of the shooting in a very beautiful location, a decent photography, and the adaptation of a nostalgia novel,
the movie totally fails to achieve the complexity of the characters.
Characters often over-simplified, idealized or ostracized. The famous cast actors are reduced to perform gross stereotypes. We can doubt they were really employing their nuanced talent.
The various intrigues, after abrupt twists and sudden dead-ends, generally drift all into a lesson of nostalgic morale. The movie editing grossly points too much about this or that inner-or-open conflict, just too absolutely send it in oblivion after, for the profit of an unconditional optimism.
Considered the original material, the movie would have deserved and gained from much more nuance and subtility. Instead, the overall fell-good atmosphere celebrating this lost way of life seems at the end artificial, at all cost. ... and doesn't reflect at all the lifestyle of that time and area. (I know that last point. My grandparents lived in that place and time).
The various intrigues, after abrupt twists and sudden dead-ends, generally drift all into a lesson of nostalgic morale. The movie editing grossly points too much about this or that inner-or-open conflict, just too absolutely send it in oblivion after, for the profit of an unconditional optimism.
Considered the original material, the movie would have deserved and gained from much more nuance and subtility. Instead, the overall fell-good atmosphere celebrating this lost way of life seems at the end artificial, at all cost. ... and doesn't reflect at all the lifestyle of that time and area. (I know that last point. My grandparents lived in that place and time).