Cold Mountain written and directed by Anthony Minghella was nominated for seven Oscars, including for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Jude Law, and it Won The Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Renée Zellweger took it…you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Cold Mountain written and directed by Anthony Minghella was nominated for seven Oscars, including for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Jude Law, and it Won The Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Renée Zellweger took it…you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

6 out of 10

 

I have seen Cold Mountain before https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/cold-mountain.html and I was disappointed, since it keeps coming up on film channels that I surf through, once in a while I have a glimpse at what was supposed to be a major oeuvre, maybe it is, only I cannot see it and here is mea culpa

 

Also, a spoiler alert might be required, so that I do not have complaints, regarding not the ending or anything like that, but the fact that I veer off the subject, ergo, all I had to say is already above, I did not enjoy this motion picture, it is mostly a case of having too high expectations, in this case, I was waiting for perfection

Which brings me to a classic of psychology, The Paradox of Choice, wherein Barry Schwartz explains the difference between Satisfizer and Maximizer  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-paradox-of-choice-by-barry-schwartz_30.html the former is happy with very good, while the latter is fussy, and wants the impossible

 

Cold Mountain was filmed in the central area of Romania, where I lived at that time, 2001, and since all these stars were coming to this (small) town, it was a fantastic opportunity: we drove around, looked at the sets near Zarnesti, there were tents only some hundreds of meters from our house

…it was surreal

Furthermore, the cast was nec plus ultra, although at the end, I did not see merit anywhere, the fact that Renee Zellweger won the Oscar for this is incomprehensible, she was much better in Chicago, maybe it is a question of compensating https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/chicago-based-on-book-by-bob-fosse.html

 

Jude Law was also nominated, for Best Actor in a Leading Role, when he is radiant, magisterial, superb in The Talented Mr. Ripley, but here we have a forgettable presence, or else, more likely, I am just digging in with my wrong assumptions…I took all the trouble to go to the cinema to see this, and I seldom travel there…

‘Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’ the Latin for the mountains labored and a ridiculous mouse will be born, and then another thing from the same dead language – ‘the eagle does not catch flies’, to continue, these were hyperboles, evidently, and the truth is I was unable to appreciate this, and thus I will mention another quintessential work

 

Stumbling On Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/stumbling-on-happiness-by-david-gilbert.html by Daniel Gilbert explains the myths of happiness, how we thin we would be so happy, if only we were to get this promotion, have that car, watch this spectacular Cold Mountain, and then Hedonic Adaptation comes in

 

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