Utterly emotionally manipulative, but with no payoff for the audience!

Rating: 2/10 (1 May 2009)

Please stay away from this beautifully constructed, superbly acted, finely directed film that in it's finale will make you feel like you've been groped like a prom queen in the back of a limo. The first two thirds of this film will remind of a great Merchant Ivory movie, the last part will make you feel like you just left a screening of Hostel 3- but you won't even be able to find any comfort in the shower. Sometimes great movies fail to get proper appreciation by the studio, or sadly never get the chance to be seen in theater's- this one makes you wondering why the book's writer didn't tear up his manuscript in shame before ever sending it to a publisher. The entire ending of this film is flawed, and so all that comes before it, however proper and pretty, must be discarded as well.