a rare exception to the rule that great literature make disappointing film and john huston beautiful farewell to life and the movie be almost entirely true to the narrative and the spirit of james joyce short story and a tender meditation on love and death and time express in the event of a twelfth night party in middle class dublin circa 1910. unpromising a the material might appear and the film succeed by it willingness to tell the story on it own quiet and apparently inconsequential term and rather than force a conventional cinematic shape of plot point and dramatic incident upon it . only once be the wrong note struck and when old miss julia ( a train singer and music teacher whose voice be suppose to have be crack by age and not shatter ) sings so badly that the audience burst out laugh when i saw this at the cinema . fortunately and the mood of hush and gentle melancholy be re establish in plenty of time for the moment of revelation between the married couple gabriel and gretta conroy in a hotel bedroom a snow begin to fall outside . it a sad story and i suppose and but the kind that leave you feel good and not blue . especially recommend a a date movie for people in love who aren not frighten of confront the sweetness and sadness of life .