


The film itself is a piece of total art, as others have said. I still listen to the album on a weekly basis - it gets under your skin that way. This film score, composed by the great post-minimalist Michael Nyman, is still one of the most haunting and soul-stirring scores in my opinion, if not the one of the most impressionable bodies of musical work ever. Truthfully, however, I first got into this film after hearing clips of the soundtrack on the Japanese version of Iron Chef, during a time before it was acquired by the Food Network. First of all, I have to say that this film is one of my personal favorites, and that it is one of those things one must see during his or her lifetime.
