This is a wonderful movie. I'll let others write about the story, and the necessity of telling it. I'll just say that I was on the verge of, and well past, tears through most of it. As far as the production. it's a physically beautiful with full rich natural colors, good physical values, nice music.
But it is the script that gives the actors such room to create an emotional bond with the audience, because the audience shares the the emotional bond among many, but ESPECIALLY between the two main characters. The physical, and much more, the verbal, often joyfully ribald, horseplay between them is naturalistic, though I fear, somewhat idealized, view of brotherdom.
This a film you need to see.
Review of A Bag of Marbles
