Review: laden with plenty of baggage 
Sentiment: negative

Review: they may be as history 
Sentiment: negative

Review: entirely humorless 
Sentiment: negative

Review: jacquot has filmed the opera exactly as the libretto directs , ideally capturing the opera 's drama and lyricism . 
Sentiment: positive


Review: though jackson does n't always succeed in integrating the characters in the foreground into the extraordinarily rich landscape , it must be said that he is an imaginative filmmaker who can see the forest for the trees .