Excellent
movie based on the above mentioned
novel by
Michael Ondaatje who did astoundingly well at the
Oscars, winning 9 of the shiny statues.The movie manages to mix an excellent
plot, with a beautiful
photography, some incredible acting (
Juliette Binoche was on her habitual levels of excellence -still don't know why she went to the
Oscars as a
supporting actress, and
Ralph Fiennes was just perfect as a
melancholic adventurer) and a rather slick sense of humour (nearly
everything in the movie is a joke, is set by
fate or a stupid
mistake).
It was directed by Anthony Minghella, who would later adapt Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mister Ripley; and the cast is completed with Kristin Scott Thomas, and the always disturbing Willem Dafoe.