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Does this film only have 5.8/10 from your viewers ? That's not very much. I found it an original, well-acted picture, with lots of wisdom and humour in it. Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel prove they're real actors. The description of the family was very good. The film always hit the right atmosphere. There wasn't any scene in it that should not be there. It was an original love-story, the one that you don't see too often in most pictures. Really, I've enjoyed this film.

This is certainly a remarkable movie. The acting is superb and the black/white photography is impressing. I'm not too sure that I've really understood all the spiritual movements the young priest has made and I think the hard treatment the villagers and the count and his family give him is exaggerated. But to watch a movie like this 50 years on is in itself a moving experience.

This is a disappointing movie. A cast with Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas should offer the spectator much more than this.

Director Sidney Pollack sticks to his old style: (1) a description of the relationship (tensions, care) of a man and a woman who get to know each other. (2) Playing a part in his own movie. It reminded me strongly of his 70ies and 80ies movies. Harrison Ford makes the same sorrowful faces he has already used in 'Frantic'. Moreover, the film clearly lasts too long. Superfluous scenes in airports, parks, hotel lobbies, etc. make the central theme of the film (the discovery of the hidden past of their partners) less interesting.

This kind of slow cinema may have worked well in the 1970ies but now it seems dated and uninspired.