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Undoubtedly, a masterpiece, this three-and-a-half hour version puts body on the flesh of what was already a great movie.

Coppola's aesthetic is all about excess and lacks the self awareness that let Hammer Horror films get away with this.

Coppola may have made films of a more spectacular nature but here he makes a virtue of a introversion - so that the film's horror moment is all the more vibrantly terrible when set in relief.

A masterpiece of restrained filmmaking

It is described simply as “A Fable”, but there is nothing simple about this over-ambitious allegorical sprawl.

The performances are generally solid, the soundtrack and visuals wonderful and the ambition is vaulting, but it is ultimately a failed experiment.

Not typical Grisham, it is closer to autobiography than fiction.

This is not so much a study in stereotypes, courtesy of Jimmy Dean’s legacy, but a love poem to the restless, doomed, anarchic integrity of orphaned hearts.

Aesthetically, it is a joy from start to finish.

What emerges, despite the magic realist trappings, is a classic Coppola tale; Like Kurtz and Michael Corleone, Dominic is a man alone, haunted by his memories and driven to tragedy by the essence of his character.