Not for americans

Rating: 8/10 (13 January 2019)

Excellent film in the Peter Greenaway style (though not quite as subtle). The seemingly simple story is intriguing, very well written and acted with feeling, pathos and bathos. The film as a whole benefits from superb costume design, natural lighting, and great use of super wide lenses, an excellent musical score and cool sound design. It's modern yet authentically period, funny and quirky but tragic and serious. This quiet masterpiece is not everyone's cup of tea of course, americans will have bother comprehending history that happened before the 'founding' and it is unashamedly British - none more so than the thankfully correct spelling of the title.