diwa

This is definitely a movie worth seeing. I wouldn't categorize it as "fantasy" though, because that makes you think of unicorns and dragons. But it's not fantasy in that way. Sure, impossible things take place, but it would be better categorized as surrealistic in the sense of South-American literature (Mario Vargas Llosa , Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel). If you like books by these writers, you will enjoy this movie as I did. The scenery is very much as you would imagine it for such actions to take place. It also provides a very nice portrait of the different characters - the local policeman, the prostitute in the autumn of her career and life (same as her faithful clients). In fact the only "normal" people (that is not overemphasized) are the oboe-player and the woman that runs the cinema.

This is the most touching movie I have seen in a long time. It takes a different look on the theme of "terminal" disease. It mainly shows how the parents (mostly the father) cope with the fact that their daughter doesn't have that much time on this earth, subsequently they don't have much time with her. The movie however doesn't concentrate on the girl herself. In fact she is ignorant of what is driving her parents to change their attitude towards her and each other. She's happy of course as it brings her parents back together (emotionally at least), but her character remains in the background as we see her father trying not to think of what's to come and make her as happy as he can even for a little while and her mother coming out of her initial denial.