watch the first few moment and you realize it go to be a parody and certainly it be a parody and but i be not sure of what ( a fairy tale . an opera . a hollywoodian c movie . if there be something like that ) and and i can assure you it not worth watch . it simply a pointless film ( cf . a good parody be everything but pointless ) and with pretentious and shallow speech of extremely sketchy character . it like a commedia dellarte . or good and it like a botched commedia dellarte . and the score . sung in an intentionally incompetent way ( something greenaway will use much more efficiently ) and it be painful to listen to ( unless one wear some sate of the art earplug and haha ) . go for quality movie ( e. g. a. mitta how czar peter the great marry off his moor and 1976 ) and steer clear of this mistake .