Too good at making audience feel miserable

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2019)

From a production quality standpoint, this is a great movie. From an enjoyability standpoint, I hated it. The problem with setting out to make a movie that bores and annoys the audience is that you might succeed. I can only compare it to The Man With No Face in that regard -- great movie if you can stand being bored to tears and slightly nauseated. I found the interpretation of the period to be extremely plausible and well-done, despite exaggerations of foppishness and liberal attitudes. Some say this was comedic... nothing close to a chuckle ever stirred in me, though I will grant it seemed to be trying on some level. Putting so much power in the hands of three women was refreshing if unlikely. So great movie for film critics, terrible movie for almost any other purpose.