content: This movie was like watching paint dry. These critics are all lemmings. A few well-known authored critics give a movie raves, and everyone else follows behind, afraid they would appear uneducated in the "film arts" circles. To say that this film was either "the best" or "one of the best" foreign films ever made is an abomination! I'd take ANY Kurosawa film, over this one. What about "Fanny and Alexander" or any of the Bergman films? I just wasted one and a half hours watching this movie. What a waste! If I wanted to watch something this banal I would have watched the 6+ hour movie that Andy Warhol made of a person sleeping.