As long movies go, this was *really* long

Rating: 6/10 (15 May 2002)

I normally love talky, romantic, period drama type movies, but this one just left me unmoved. The romance of Kip and Hana was wonderful, and earns this movie the six stars I gave it. I would have loved it if they had been the focus of the movie.
But the main story, Laszlo and Katharine, did nothing for me. Their scenes before they *ahem* consummated their attraction for one another had less of flirtation and discovery, and more of two dogs in heat sniffing around each other.
It's telling that I have a window open with the cast listing so I could see what Laszlo's and Katharine's names were, because I just plain couldn't remember them. But I remembered Kip's and Hana's.