The Sixth Sense (1999) ***

Directed by M.Night Shyamalan. With Bruce Willis, Olivia Williams and Toni Collette. First, it LOOKS like a typical Bruce Willis Hollywood blockbuster. And after HEARING its co-star Toni Collette, we can SMELL a disaster. But this TOUCHING and very bizarre drama actually offers a TASTE of something different. It should be seen twice. On the first viewing, it seems horribly pretentious, gloomy and weird. But once you know the ending, its stylistic austerity and its quasi-bergmanian silence, suddenly make perfect SENSE.