I saw it a couple of weeks ago and liked it. I'll refrain from saying more until it opens at the Rome Film Fest next month.
# posted by  Scott Macaulay @ 9/16/2007 2:02 AM  

 
It's opened with a dull thud in Italy. Coppola has made an old man's mistake. Free from constraints, he thinks he can begin making films after his own heart. He did much better when constrained. This is a write-off. Mircea Eliade's novel-fable is readable as it juggles ideas of time and language. On screen it's ridiculous. When we get tired of watching an excellent actor like Tim Roth something is radically wrong with his script. See Variety's critic on line
who enumerates the flaws of this fiasco with a sure hand.
# posted by  leccese @ 11/04/2007 12:49 PM  

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