canadian be too polite to boo but the audience at the toronto film festival leave the theater mutter that they would rate this film 0 or 1 on their voting sheet . the premise be that a modern filmmaker be interpret a 17th century fable about the love of shepherd and shepherdess set in the distant past when druid be the spiritual leader . work in three epochs present many opportunity to introduce anachronisms include silly and impractical clothing and peculiar spiritual rite that involve really bad poetry . lover be divide by jealousy and their rigid adherence to idiotic code of conduct from which cross dressing and assorted farcical situation arise . the film could have be hilarious a a monty python piece and which it too closely resembles and but rohmer effort fall very flat . the audience laugh at the sight joke but otherwise bemoan the slow pace . the end come all in a rush and be truly awful . this be a trivial film and a waste of your movie go time .