I also found this in a 'best of the noughties' list although I don't think it was The Times but The Onion. A few years back I tried to watch it when it was on TV late at night but I gave up after 10 minutes. I decided that since I'm few years older and wiser I may now be able to appreciate it. I was wrong.
It wasn't a bad film by any means. It had its good points.
I didn't think it was too unrealistic. I thought she didn't report the suicide at first because of shock. It wasn't unrealistic because that was just her character, she was impulsive - didn't seem to think, just did whatever came to mind at the time. Everything she did was consistent to her character, her character was just consistently weird and random. The most unrealistic thing I found about the whole thing was that her boyfriend was going out with her. Her boyfriend was a fan of Boards of Canada and The Velvet Underground, while also being a fantastic writer (which makes me assume he had intellect), yet he was in love with and going out with a raver chick. I don't understand that, I just couldn't imagine it in real life...hah.
I must agree though that no way was this worthy of being put in any top 100 list.
The music was great, it was shot beautifully and it had some great scenes (which mostly revolved around the great music...) I just felt it was a little too slow with not much actually happening.
Funnily enough A Single Man, the new Colin Firth movie has a similar type of theme and is also really slow, but I thought A Single Man was great.
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