Wonderfully offbeat film!

Sadly Over-hyped

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

another heart stopping drama.the movie picked great pace suddenly lost control and fell down.the end result is entire effect is lost.a 10 year old boy re-incarnation is certainly a very different theme. wife also strongly believed that the kid is her husband's re-birth. what followed is an intriguing drama and very difficult to guess what is going to happen next.so far great.wife decided to elope with the kid.heart racing.but alas!thud!the kid admitted that he is cheating.how? director only knows.I am so disappointed at this point and felt that the director got cold feet belatedly and the entire theme spoiled . even though Nicole Kidman's performance is brilliant the film fell flat on its face.the proper ending should have been the death of both Kidman and the kid .

Sadly even the start to the movie was a little disappointing. Sean is running in the park, and dies of a heart attack. Would have been better served with him being attacked in the park and killed. If it is his normal thing to go running in the park, then someone seemly in their 30s falling down dead with the heart attack is a crazy start.Nicole Kidman is excellent in her part especially the zoom in facial expressions while she is in the theatre. The attachment to the child who claims to be her deceased husband seem a bit crazy considering their dialog, the lack of sharing personal details, like the smell of her hair, special moments they had shared or just mannerism would have helped the story along.There were lots of opportunity to bring out the husbands characteristics, like when the boy is in the study and talking about working, if he remembers being Anna's husband then why not remember physics that he used to lecture.Also believing that Joseph and Anna's family would allow the child to stay was just too reaching.Even the ending felt like they got bored with the film and decided to finish. A film with so many possibilities, the boy could have left with Anna, the boy could have fallen and the spirit of Sean leaving the boy, Anna could have died and he left with the body of Anna. But sadly a very crap ending.

This film is something I would recommend almost anyone, and I do not say this lightly. It is so well done and the Director and DP are highly talented individuals! The film is shot beautifully, with the Director showing his willingness to PUSH things into the realm of serious avant-garde, (at least these days!) with regards the length of his close-ups, and also his having characters express emotion in a very very understated manner a lot of the times. I am talking about the faces of the people around Anna while they are being obviously SHOCKED by what this strange boy knows!! The score is magnificent and I would love to buy it on Cd and probably will. The production design I found to be top notch also, even if it was not necessarily a difficult challenge to most people's minds. The acting of ALL principals was terrific, and Bacall was a real treat I must say!! Nicole Kidman although ever so slightly understated in conveying desperately intense emotions,nevertheless manages to make us understand the power of what she is feeling. I would guess that her performance was probably driven by the Director due to the fact that I KNOW she can be far more intense when she wants to (Australia). Huston is great as the poor guy who is blind-sided by this fascinating and interestingly enough TRUE SCENARIO (it happens is what I mean). Reincarnation is a fact of our existence that I have NO DOUBTS ABOUT ANYMORE, I only wonder if the scenario in this picture is within the realm of possibility due to the fact that we usually have at the very least SEVERAL years go by if not a century before we incarnate in this dimension. So beyond the fact that I question the logic of the idea, the only problem I have with this aesthetically highly satisfying picture is the ending which left me cold because I wanted things to turn out differently for Sean And Anna. Regardless of that disappointment I hope you make sure to see this wonderfully filmed, beautifully scored work of modern art, and then return to this site to discuss your views!!

I just saw this movie last night and I gotta say it's movies like these that make me fall even deeper in love with Nicole Kidman. She's such a gifted actress and this movie is most definitely a example of her prowess on screen. I'll keep the explanation of the plot short and just say The story is about a young widow from a prominent Manhattan-based family named Anna (played by Kidman) who slowly becomes convinced that her husband, Sean, who died ten years previously, has been reincarnated in the form of a 10-year-old boy also named Sean (Bright). At first Anna is skeptical, but Sean's intimate knowledge of their past makes her think twice. The directing is superb, the story and screenplay; amazing. If you enjoy good films, or just Nicole Kidman check out this movie as soon as you can, and while you're at it keep an eye out for her next film "Trespass", I just saw the trailer and it looks like it's gonna be pretty good. http://bitly.com/o7TwhG