Could have been good. Disappointing, irritating, sickening instead.

dweston

I'm usually one to go for dark. I like artsy, original films. And I'm not a prude, nor am I oversensitive. BUT, I found this to be truly, truly atrocious. I think I might have actually liked the book version - the story itself is very intriguing, like some of the Gothic novels I've read or read about. But watching it -- well, I felt disgusted. Beautiful naked dead women and hetero male-oriented orgy scenes aside, the astoundingly terrible accents made me want to pull my own hair out. C'mon. They're supposedly in medieval Paris and Dustin Hoffman's character is supposedly Italian, yet everyone spoke English inconsistently tinged with accents from various parts of Great Britain. Better direction and acting might have made the incredible somehow believable (in the manner of dark magical realism), but here it just seemed irritatingly implausible. Go ahead and watch it - you might like it. Just have a back up on hand, just in case.

score 1/10

dweston 28 October 2007

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