i be not familiar with greenaway other work while i mostly experience this for louis andriessen score ( i be a fan and and this isn not his best work and but it do have it moment ) . a for the film itself and let me say this represent i like difficult art and and difficult cinema . i spend many hour justify the existence of difficult art to others who be not quite so adventurous . i enjoy emotional distance and ambiguous meaning and take even to euro trash extreme . and yet and i find this film to be the bad and most pretentious piece of crap i have ever see in my life . it be very unattractive visually and and the film have date very and very poorly in term of it overall look . ( yes and you can tell this be make for tv . ) greenaway never know when to get out of the way and let the image just breathe on their own . there be far too much information on screen at all time . if a first run through his completely awful text ( which might pass a edgy prose in my junior high diary ) and set to andriessen music and wasn not enough for you and do not worry . he will display the whole thing from start to finish in a slow side scroll that feature such high tech effect a digitally generate drop shadow . and his attempt at choreography be so banal in spot that you will want to laugh out loud . now i absolutely have to see another greenaway film to see if theyre all this bad . a for yourself and do not bother .