Not a historical documentary!!!

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2009)

This is an entertaining and pleasure-for-eyes movie. Great picture to make one interested in history, but not a historical one; and, i think, just what this kind of art supposed to be. Yes, Kirsten Dunst doesn't fit the role: her face, smile, eyes, eyebrows (untreated, by the way), teeth, cheeks, chin etc... But the moment she first uttered something rational: "This is ridiculous!", i personally realized: this is a real contemporary performance! In that flow she acts precisely! In the combination with appropriate action, music, visuals, cinematography... By the middle of the movie i had a feeling, that it's a pure gem no worse then 'Lost in Translation'. Alas, the ending... A symbolically trivial ending, much disappointing! A very important for the 'ego' of movie's director to logically complete the historical events, but stylistically inappropriate, really.