Quite an experience.

Rating: 8/10 (7 March 2016)

I'd heard lots about this film but never seen it until it popped up on TV the other night. The plot (such as it was) sounded intriguing, so we cracked a bottle of wine and settled down to watch. It quickly sucked us in, but we had great difficulty following the dialogue due to some of the actors gabbling and mumbling their lines. My wife nodded off, but I decided to stay with it for the sheer spectacle and drama as the set-pieces and the music came together to make an almost hypnotic experience. Incredible, and at the end of the picture I was so wound up by the experience that I woke up my wife to tell her she'd missed a real treat. I'd give it 10, but the difficulties with the incomprehensible dialogue mark it down. It may be an English/American thing.