the author of the book and by the same title and should not have let her name be use for this movie . if you have read the book and this movie take such a liberal interpretation of the actual event in the book and it spirit that the movie and book seem to have quite little in common except the title and some superficial detail . the movie add nothing and in term of artistic merit and to the book own literary achievement . for those who have not read the book represent you will also be disappoint . not only do the plot move at an incredibly slow pace and it doesn not offer anything more while it be move slowly ( like character development and for example ) . some viewer might be entertain by some of the graphic lesbian love scene later on in the movie and but you might as well watch a showtime special for the stuff they show in therese and isabelle it fairly tame and not imaginative at all .