Execrable

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2018)

The art direction, set direction, costume design, and cinematography were all top notch. This, after all, is an art film. But of a particular genre that could only be called arty farty. There is nothing of substance whatsoever beneath the thin veneer of glitzy surface (albeit at times muddy). Nothing rings true. Nothing happens in a way that one could believe would actually happen that way. In fact, things happen, multiple things, for which there are no explanations. They just suddenly happen because they make good visual glitz. And happening they don't reach their logical conclusions. Premises are cast aside and ignored, basically slapping the thinking viewers upside their heads. It's not just the history that is wrong, it is certain explanations, character arcs, psychology; set ups and expectations that go nowhere, that just die as orphans in the pretty wasteland of this movie.