Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!

Not sure it’s a movie for kids. At least modern kids. Or am I being too harsh? Did your kids or kids you know love it like I did?

It’s a beautiful film about cinema, stories, the past, what’s important. It’s a beautiful screenplay that manages to make epic adventure out of a small, delicate tale and simple moments. It’s an adventure for children with a soul and imagination that is allowed and encouraged to flow. Yes it’s about cinema, and for a movie geek it’s a dream, almost literally. There are some glorious homages and the whole film is designed and delivered with such love.

The people who can’t see it is a Martin Scorsese picture are the people who think his ouvre begins and ends with guns and gangs. If we take an auteurist approach it’s clearly a Scorsese picture for who else in cinema has such passion for its history, its preservation and its power. 

This also has the greatest use of 3D I’ve yet seen. Far superior than Avatar because it doesn’t feel cynical, or gimmicky. It feels exciting, and excited. It looks beautiful and feels new, like it could be the beginning of something.

It’s beautiful, cinematic, exquisitely written and performed. Loved it, loved it. 

And, adored the little James Joyce moment at the start. Sublime.