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[gingifere]

I seriously want to see this film. I really hope it opens up in England sometime soon after it does in the US!

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I hope it opens for you soon, too! I thought it was wonderful - spectacular and absurd, but wonderful, as only a child's imagination and an adult's grief could create.

[nutmeg3]

I've just started seeing commercials for this film, and it looks stunning. I have no idea if it will play locally, or if I'll manage to see it if it does, but the ads and your review make me want to try.

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It's incredible - the NYT reviewer had awful things to say - it was one of those situations where you wonder if you were even watching the same film. The Washington Post reviewer above got it, even more than I did, actually, and I thought it was incredible. You have to remember who is telling the story, and how the story is being invented/imagined/visualized (and why, of course), and when you see it in that context, it's utterly magical and transporting. But on the character level, I love how this is really just a story about a guy with a broken heart and a little girl who misses her father.