from 1996 and first i watch this movie and i feel never reach the end of my satisfaction and i feel that i want to watch more and more until now and my god i do not believe it be ten year ago and and i can believe that i almost remember every word of the dialogue . i love this movie and i love this novel and absolutely perfection . i love willem defoe and he have a strange voice to spell the word black night and i always say it for many time and never be bore . i love the music of szararem and it so much spiritualistic and make me come into another world deep in my heart . anyone can feel what i feel and anyone could make the movie like this . i do not believe so . thanks ondaatje thanks mingela .