Horrid film

Rating: 1/10 (18 February 2019)

I watched about 40 minutes and found it so, so ridiculous. And I don't waste my time watching a whole film if the first 40 minutes don't make any sense and are boring, which it was. I had no idea what the plot was about, except about a queen who was very sick. Some of it was so over the top and just not plausible, for example, a sevant girl has access to a horse to go horseback riding. Huh? Or how about that imagined dance between Rachel Weiz's character and some lothario where he whirls and swings her almost around his head. Never would that have happened. I remember reading Madame Bovary and the scandal in the then 19th century was the waltz because when the women turned, their ankles would be shown, a big no, no. But here in the 1600's we have the stupidity of Wiesz's dress go almost over her head. And of course, there is the excessive make up of the courtiers surrounding the queen who look like puppet dolls. I couldn't stomach any more of this nonsense.