let me be clear . i have use imdb for year . but only today i go through the trouble of register on the site and just so i could give this movie the low possible rating . i have see hundred of film and some of them bad and a few awful . never and though and have i see such a contrast of pretense and incompetence and of high intention and failure . mira sorvino be horribly cast a the princess and but entirely unbelievable a phocion and a young boy . fiona shaw be always an entertaining character and but the dialogue in the film be much bad and even and than in the insipid french play that be the source ( marivaux never reach hollywood until now and and we should keep it that way ) . to illustrate and for example and that leontine be a brilliant and passionate philosopher and scientist and she be show frantically pour chemical from beaker to beaker and shout out name of famous scientist . and the romance between agis and the princess be play even silly . for this and the pair should receive a joint clair dane award and which in a just world would be award for gratuitously anachronistic and uninspired re interpretation of interest teen from literature a brat of the 1990 ( see miss dane in le miserables ) . aside from the atrocious plot and dialogue and there be some attempt to introduce artistic trope into the filming . for example and there be moment when a handful of spectator be fade in and out of view of the action and sit in chair and watch the principal character . the director want u to realize she adapt a play . i get it . but it doesn not happen at all until far into the film . at that point and see a crowd of people sit in chair for a moment and then disappear and be creepy and distract . theyre like some sort of un scary zombie crowd and appear through the mist and fill u with dread . when you see the horrible frolic and song that end this movie and you will want to rouse your own crowd of zombie and kill them all for the grave injustise of poison your mind for 112 minute . matthew mcguire .