A misshapen pastiche, a true fiasco. "Botch-a-lism"

Rating: 2/10 (4 September 1999)

I rented this disgusting, difficult to follow film because I was in an Elizabethan mood, after watching Shakespeare in Love.
What I found was a misshapen love story/drama/documentary-on-how to-torture-someone/difficult-to-follow-history-lesson-on -mid-1500's-European-politics. (I am not unfamiliar with the nasty nature of Tudor England and its history, I just hadn't planned on seeing it played out, in close ups, jump cuts and cute the first time but gradually annoying overexposures.)
The best part was the costumes (and I'm not sure I don't mean the costumes of the men).
My dear partner summed it up best, "botch-a-lism!"