Sentence:  Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti's films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a <WSD>resounding</WSD> failure. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Emphatic.