Bardlerx Strictly average movie

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

andrewwoolley This is an 'epic' tale of three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.It has a slight 'slap in the face' quality. Nothing is left to the imagination, as at the beginning when, just in case you don't know what an exploding brewery looks like, you get to see one.It's all very titillating; from grand sword fighting duels, sadism in concentration camps, OTT domestic arguments, to looking up Jennifer Ehle's skirt.It was the director's brainchild. Watch the actors interviewed in the 'making of' say how brilliant he is in the most deadpan way, and what a pleasure it was for them to be involved in the execution of his master plan.

Malki Baby This movie started off great.... but left me disappointed....It paints a beautiful tapestry of a Jewish family living in the Austro - Hungarian Empire...It is in essence a quality picture... from the actors to the script to the scenery and so one... one word impeccable...but I am disappointed...The focus on the Holocaust was quite meagre...which was disappointing. The characters we grew to know and love in the movie are dismissed with short explanations... Like Greta, Rachel Weisz and her husband and so one... We don't see how the characters struggled and fought for there lives.. they should at least have put 20 minutes of that in the 3 hour movie... They focused too long on the life of Ivan Sors and you just get mad and frustrated looking at it.. He just came back from Auschwitz and hes collaborating with anti-semits how dumb can you be... they make him look quite dumb from his political position to his selection of woman.... then they end the movie making him look even stupider..he destroys everything in the house! and the famous Sonnischien book..that was past down generation to generation.. how insensitive... oki he changed his name at the end.... But this movie could have been great...but because of its faults is just alright..If you appreciate a beautifly filmed movie with quality acting and the art of story telling then see this film..other wise if your like me you'll just be left in discontent...

alex_sternchen Sunshine wonderfully depicts the waves of politics that have affected Hungary and led to its tragic history as well as how these political regimes affected Hungarians. Even if specifically focusing on a Jewish family I do think many of the struggles can be universally applied to Hungarians or Central/Eastern Europeans. This is however not just a history lesson but a touching and emotional account of a family's struggle through the times. The acting is impressive and choosing Ralph Fiennes for the leading role was a great move as he has already studies the culture and the meaning of being Hungarian for the English patient.Definitely worth watching!

gelman@attglobal.net Schindler's List was apparently enough for most film goers. "Sunshine," superior to "Schindler" in many respects, got fewer accolades and much less attention. Why do I think "Sunshine" is superior to "Schindler?" Primarily because it tells the story of the Holocaust through the lens of a single family whose pre-Holocaust history gives a dimension and depth to the tragedy of that family that "Schlinder" is incapable of providing because of its quite different narrative strategy and focus. To be sure, "Schindler's" narrative sweep affords a greater sense than "Sunshine" of the scope of the slaughter. But "Sunshine" stands in relation to "Schindler" as a novel stands to a work of history. One brings the insights offered by individual tragedies, the other brings more of a societal perspective. The best "Holocaust" film, however, remains in this viewer's opinion, "The Pawnbroker" with Rod Stieger, which had an even narrower focus than "Sunshine" and brought the horror of the Holocaust to life by exploring the emotional desolation/death suffered by a single survivor. A truly great film.