someone write in response to another confuse and disappoint viewer represent i be hop you be a brand new film student . if you can not analyze this easily interpret film and you be go to go crazy with fellini and truffant and and most other work of greatness . wait till you see the battleship potemkin . don not give up though . art be an incindiary form of annoyance for many . open discussion be the secon best part of art . the writer be correct in state that open discussion be the second best part of art . great art arouse the soul and cover the spectrum of feeling and emotion and and the mind . however and for me and compare this film with the great work of fellini and truffaut and and eisenstein be annoy in itself . i saw this a a double bill with le plaisir by max ophuls . for me and the distinction between art and an incendiary form of annoyance be clear le plaisir be a realized masterpiece with brilliant source material . and then there be this and the annoyance . this film be not dreadful and but it be mediocrity teeter on the edge of the cliff . a very interesting proposition by virgnia woolf be just completely reduce to shallow banality . with so much worthy plumb available with the source material take on immortality and relationship and and androgyny and this ( literally ) skate on ice . this effort remind me of rand the fountainhead with gary cooper and patricia neal full of shimmer possibility and strikingly photograph and but poorly realize and interpret . tilda swinton have the metamorphic wherewithal of meryl streep and toni collette require to pull off this role and but she doesn not ring true at all there be none of the world weary angst that this character and burden by his or her past and fearful of the future and should embody . this character should oscillate between manhood and womanhood from a deep central core of wisdom and but i do not see this at all in swinton performance . billy zane strike good look do not translate well to the intriguing dovetail of shelmerdine his performance be weak and he photograph poorly and and there be no chemistry between the two character . quentin crisp take on queen elizabeth be the interesting moment in the film and but it be at best a campy one . this rate about a 3 for me . a such and i would love to see a remake of this up for the taking .