Sad mistake

Rating: 2/10 (25 October 2003)

No offense meant, but except for Binoche and Scott Thomas, the film was - for me - a huge, sad and tasteless mistake. I was so bored by the whole thing that I kept on brooding about Fiennes' unrealistic make-up and the sheer ugliness of the Italian frescoes. These parodies of life's extremes - extreme beauty, extreme pain - are as hapless as the film itself.