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Cold Mountain

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United Kingdom, Italy, Romania · 2003
Rated R · 2h 34m
Director Anthony Minghella
Starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins
Genre Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

A wounded Confederate soldier deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As he makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

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Newsweek by David Ansen

As he did in “The English Patient,” Minghella artfully weds movie-movie romanticism with a dark historical vision. The man knows how to cast a spell.

90

The New Yorker by David Denby

A much better movie about the South during the Civil War than “Gone with the Wind”--visionary, erotic, and tragic where the older movie is flossy, merely ambitious and self-important. [22 & 29 December 2003, p. 166]

70

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

Zellweger looks like a big movie star roughing it à la Paris Hilton, and as if this weren't distracting enough, the hills are alive with big acting names from both sides of the Atlantic who pop up as help or hindrance to Inman's pilgrim's progress while straining, with variable success, for credible Southern twangs.

75

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

It's certainly a successful adaptation, features numerous memorable performances (mostly by the supporting players), and is worth a post-holiday expenditure of time and money.

100

Film Threat by K.J. Doughton

As he did with “The English Patient,” director Minghella performs a miraculous juggling act, balancing his epic, sweeping story with the subtleties of character and detail that make Cold Mountain breathe.

90

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

A somber, often downbeat depiction of human savagery and treachery as well as of human kindness. Writer-director Anthony Minghella has meticulously crafted an intimate epic.

70

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer

Cold Mountain has some marvelous, intimate moments and a real feeling, at times, for the loss that war engenders, but it also has more than its share of hokum--which would be more entertaining if the hokum were juicier.

100

Time by Richard Corliss

A grand and poignant movie epic about what is lost in war and what's worth saving in life. It is also a rare blend of purity and maturity -- the year's most rapturous love story.

80

Variety by Todd McCarthy

A grim picaresque odyssey across a beautiful scarred landscape laced together by private romantic longing. Handsomely made and vividly acted.

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