visually beautiful with pretty characterisation and some fine act particularly from julie walter . but i have more interest in the love triangle of the serf that i do of the aristrocracy . it really doesn not come together and but could have be quite a compelling drama if the story have peak and resolve itself a little more poignantly . i wouldn not spend the two hour of view time to sit through this again because it seem to have be direct by someone with the emotion of granite . pity because it so pretty and romantic in a visual sense . too few scene from m walter . the character portray by m dunst ( zinaida ) irritate the hell out of me . pity i have to wait until the end for her exit .