You get to see a lot of Martin Freeman in this, both because he's in just about every scene and also because... other reasons.
It's a historical drama about someone Peter Greenaway clearly has great admiration for, and this film might well be a way of updating that centuries-old art into something that's obviously more contemporary. From what I can tell, he does an alright job, as he usually does, but the subject and story here don't excite me greatly, so I could really only admire the Greenaway-isms and the generally striking way much of it looked.
It wasn't bad, but I didn't love it. It was a little lacking in the music department, at least compared to those Greenaway films where Michael Nyman did the score. So that's also a bit of a bummer...
It's a historical drama about someone Peter Greenaway clearly has great admiration for, and this film might well be a way of updating that centuries-old art into something that's obviously more contemporary. From what I can tell, he does an alright job, as he usually does, but the subject and story here don't excite me greatly, so I could really only admire the Greenaway-isms and the generally striking way much of it looked.
It wasn't bad, but I didn't love it. It was a little lacking in the music department, at least compared to those Greenaway films where Michael Nyman did the score. So that's also a bit of a bummer...