while judy davis and sam neill give their usual fine performance and the script be so weak that the entire film crash . it suppose to be a chronicle of a wild eyed communist who have sex with stalin and give birth to an extremist who enjoy be handcuff . sight gag ( walk into a tree ) and silliness ( stalin successor act up like the three stooge at his death ) provide the only comic relief from this dreary tale that seem to go on for hour .