A good movie

Honestly, it has been a while since I watched this movie and maybe I shoud rewatch it at some point to make up my mind for good but I thought it was pretty good at the time. I remember, when it was released, there was a pretty good buzz about it. Indeed, it was an epic periode drama directed by Anthony Minghella, previous oscar winner with ‘Shakespeare in Love’, there was an all-star cast and it was distributed by the Weinstein brothers who always had a very agressive campaign to make sure their indie productions got a lot of attention. Eventually, even though it did pretty well financially (from a 80 million dollars budget, they reached 170 million dollars at the box-office), it managed to get only some decent reviews when it was in fact clearly aiming for the oscars but it makes sense in my opinion (Renée Zellweger did win on oscar though but it was a minor one and, on top of that, her character was in fact the most annoying one in the whole flick). Indeed, it is a rather gorgeous epic with some great decors and costumes and there was a very nice cast (Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Donald Sutherland, Ray Winstone, Charlie Hunnam and even Jack White) . The main issue was that even though the story was entertaining, it was never really spellbinding enough. Still, I actually liked the damned thing and I think it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10