this film fail a number of level but the big failure be that it lack any drama . thanks to the foolish way the story be plot we already know what happen in the first 5 minute of the film . because the story be tell both in the year 2000 and in the year 1850 ( approx ) we know that the famous poet have no last relationship to the other poet . and we also know ( because it a film ) that the two victorian poet have a relationship because otherwise the movie wouldn not have be make . i blame the writer and the director for fail to see that you can not have a drama without give the audience some reason to care about the character . i surely do not care about the two victorian poet . i also do not care for either of the two modern scholar . all the character in the movie be paper thin with nothing but affectation instead of actual personality . if you be go to do an historical film then you have to make the audience care by give meaning to the life of the people you be film . in this film all meaning and drama that be possible in the life of the victorian be remove by the constant intercutting of the modern day scene . never and never do this . the constant intercutting of the modern world keep remind the viewer that the past be dead and the action by these dead people ultimately make no difference to anybody live today ( because if it have and the modern day scholar would know about it ) . bottom line represent if you be look for entertainment there be nothing good to say about this film and no reason to watch it . if you be film school student then this should serve a a great example of how not to make an historical drama . lesson represent do not intercut the present with the past . do not give away the story at the begining of the film .