Way too many close-ups!

Rating: 1/10 (24 March 2012)

This movie was 90% close-ups. There was no opportunity to explore this world with your own eyes...the director kept telling you exactly what you should be looking at...which was usually a close-up of someone talking. The movie had closeups of everything including the faces of horses followed by closeups of their feet trotting. Add a shaky camera and blurred out backgrounds and you have a movie made by an editor rather than a director that knows how to compose shots.
This world that this movie took place in looked fascinating, but each shot was only a few seconds long. There was no long shots so that I could study their clothes, hair, and how they moved. A very disappointing movie experience.