Only worth watching for the gross historical/practical inaccuracies

Rating: 1/10 (11 September 2007)

Well, I guess you have to be Catholic to get anything out of this complete pile of rubbish. The whole premise of the story and presumably the book is absolute cow dung. Child of 13 misreads what she sees, witnesses two couples having sex and rather than reveal the truth about her purportedly innocent under age friend, implicates her real 'love' interest (a.k.a.jealous obsession)in a 'crime' in which her aforementioned innocent friend is a willing player. Who are we supposed to be empathising with? The now old woman who tells us she is dying (oh yeah - she's a story teller)so she's written a 'novel' based on her real life experience - except that she's incorporated a little tidy up where the two victims in this story get something they never even got close to experiencing - i.e. a time of true intimacy. So, its a 'novel' not an autobiography on this basis is it? If you've read this far and think I'm being too harsh - well I haven't started on the stupid errors in the filming yet. If you want to waste some of your life watching this tripe watch out for the empty war time buses (unbelievable), the crepe bandage stuck straight onto the head wound of a soldier in the hospital and all the other over drawn out and idiotic cinematic 'effects'. This is complete and utter tripe and should be consigned to obscurity as soon as possible.