The music is an excellent portrayal without words...one of the best music scores I've ever heard, in a tale so sad...well done! It's definately an Art film...and deserves study...whether an art student, music student...cinamatography...or actor...well done! In this case...the music says it all...and wow..the music is great! This is very haunting in every way...but you must like classical music....it's a gripping masterpiece. The actors were fantastic...but it was the music that makes this film! Because the music spoke the words. It's surrealistic...definately a watch...for those of us wanting to watch Art in Film....

I first heard this performed in Foellinger Auditorium at the University of Illinois when I was in third grade, about 196, two years following its original performance in England.. This is a grand work of music and an interesting video adaptation of this great anti-war piece.The War Requiem was commissioned for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral on 30 May 1962 after the original fourteenth century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid on the night of 14 November 1940. Following its premier, there was a profound silence between the final notes and the applause. It was a triumph, achieving an impact matched by few works in the twentieth century and accordingly hailed by critics and audiences, at this and subsequent performances in London and abroad, as a contemporary masterpiece"My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity…
All a poet can do today is warn."This is a grand work of music and an interesting video adaptation of this great anti-war piece.

...but interesting.

I say this was/is neat. I love classical, or opera. They(Hulu) need a new title bar with these type of films in either music form uummmm. I'd say it was dramatic, as a film. The music might not catch the ear of the new younger people looking for that thrill, but I had one. I agree the graphics were harsh, especially towards when the WWII seens came in, I think it finished the film up nicely though. Right on hulu !! Do it Again !?!@

This is a hard film to watch, especially if harsh images are easily etched in your mind. But it's meant to be haunting because war is haunting. The music of Benjamin Britten is the only sound in this film, lending the spookiness of enemies meeting in the after world pathos. I'd like to encourage folks to read some of Wilfred Owen''s poetry because it's some of the best war poetry, capturing the tragedy of wasted life in just the right words.

Apparently its a musical...about WWI...yeah