There are infinitely many reasons why I love this film so much.
I watch this film and its sequel every holiday and if I can on school days as well. I never get bored with it, because it is not the story but the sentiments of love and happiness conveyed, that form the essence of these most marvellous films.
I am incapable of expressing all the feelings I have for this film (and its sequel) and must leave it at thanking the persons in charge of making this film (especially the director) and the actors, most sincerely - for making the two most beautiful and meaningful films.
- The setting: I knew when I first saw it (at the age of 13) that this film was set at the start of this century. The lighting of the street-lamps in Marseille and the costumes and the vehicles, how the people carried themselves, the way they looked - it was all very unmistakable.
- The pleasure in the seemingly little, trivial and common day-to-day things that really matter: the mother, father and relatives, the friends, the countryside and the weather, the insects and the memory of things that truly meant something.
- Though my childhood was different, I remembered my own special experiences, thanks to this most wondrous film.
- The characters are so beautifully portrayed - what magnificent actors they are! I can not imagine them living in this decade, their portrayal of people in the 1910's is so convincing. Especially the lady who plays the mother of Marcel (Ms. Nathalie Roussel)- she acts as if she was truly their mother. [She actually looks like a mother, so caring and gentle and kind. And they have cast her most perfectly: not just for her most excellent acting capabilities, but she is by far the most beautiful lady/mother-character ever to be seen on screen.]
- The friendship between Marcel and his little friend Lily des Bellons is most touching, so human, so real.
- Above all, the atmosphere created by this film is immensely beautiful.
I watch this film and its sequel every holiday and if I can on school days as well. I never get bored with it, because it is not the story but the sentiments of love and happiness conveyed, that form the essence of these most marvellous films.
I am incapable of expressing all the feelings I have for this film (and its sequel) and must leave it at thanking the persons in charge of making this film (especially the director) and the actors, most sincerely - for making the two most beautiful and meaningful films.