I have rated north of 37,000 movies on the IMDb. Of those, about a thousand have a 10 rating from me. Some caught me in just the right mood; some pushed my particular buttons; some were the first time I saw something done, or done right. A very few of those, probably less than 20, continue to captivate me no matter how many times I see them: Kurosawa's SANJURO; Lang's M; Zinneman's THE DAY OF THE JACKAL; Hill's THE STING... and this movie.
It may not be your perfect movie, and it may not even be a good movie so far as you're concerned, but it's one of those miracles in which everything works, from Allan Gray's peerlessly romantic score, to the telephone booth by the waterfall, a place at the end of the world where two strangers may meet by chance and fall in love, not because they are so attractive or admirable, or even think the same way, but because they must.
My, that sentence went on! It was way too complicated to take in properly, wasn't it? That's how I feel about this movie. Which is why I can look at it two or three times a year.
It may not be your perfect movie, and it may not even be a good movie so far as you're concerned, but it's one of those miracles in which everything works, from Allan Gray's peerlessly romantic score, to the telephone booth by the waterfall, a place at the end of the world where two strangers may meet by chance and fall in love, not because they are so attractive or admirable, or even think the same way, but because they must.
My, that sentence went on! It was way too complicated to take in properly, wasn't it? That's how I feel about this movie. Which is why I can look at it two or three times a year.