Review of My Mother's Castle

I'm delighted to find that every single comment on this beautiful movie is Positive, indeed, it would be difficult if not impossible to find anything negative to comment on. If you've ever been a child, if you ever had a beautiful but fragile mother, if you ever danced and skipped through a Golden childhood - or just wished you did - then this is for you; it's Meet Me In St Louis without the songs, It's I Remember Mama without the Norwegian accents, The Happy Time without the Canadian overtones and any other film you can think of that evokes those fleeting days of enchantment When We Were Very Young. Above all it's a wonderful antidote to the angst, stress, violence etc that comprise the fabric of the modern cinema - and don't even mention the anti-cinema brigade as personified by Godard who could no more shoot even one Frame as lyrical as this than he could master Mandarin in 24 hours. It would be churlish to single out anyone from the superlative cast and the only thing better than watching it for the first time is to watch it for the twentieth. Magnifique.