A magnificent period piece that virtually sets the Benchmark for the style.

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2019)

Diane and I saw this Brilliant film this afternoon at our favourite cinema in Fremantle.
As I typed in the Lead the film takes your breath away in it's ability to bring the viewer into the rooms and halls of a pre-industrial castle with it's savage darkness everywhere and therefore seeing candelight as I have never seen it filmed before.
This, for me, lack of light envellops the actors totally; it is as if they are showing themselves in a science-fiction story that had so little to do with reality. Of course this betrays my complete modernism because I and nobody in the film has ever had a taste of profound richness envelloped in virtual darkness.
The costuming was as brilliant as the lighting and the actors playing their roles in this medieval staging were superb: I will leave it at that.