this be one of those film with a great potential . brilliant actor and a debut from a very interesting director and a haunting survivor ish plot . but it do not work at all . to start with the good thing represent the cinematography be stun . the beauty of the namibian desert show itself a a merciless surrounding and also in the picture . and then there be the act . quite allright . jennifer jason leigh have never be well . bruce davison also seem to have develop his character from altman short cut . then the disappointment represent janet mcteer . romane bohringer . and the plot . why on earth do levring pick lear for their play . the whole idea of let shakespeare articulate their despair and inner longing do not work . it seem like a facade . and it be clear that the tragedy take place because of the choice of lear . they just need to fit in in the script by levring and academy award winner anders thomas jensen . and the sex . it take about three day and then more or less all of the character be sexually frustrate . dahh . sex be always the easy way out when you be in need of a crisis in a plot . janet mcteer part totally fall apart and mainly because of that ridiculous idea . the sex make the plot fall promptly to the ground . instead they could have focus on the dialogue . there must have be conversation between all of the character and but we mainly see them talk in small group . their talk though be as dead a lear and the rest of the film . the king be alive still be not the bad danish dogme 95 movie yet . but compare it to the most recent of the homegrown dogme 95 film italiensk for begyndere by lone scherfig and this one fail badly . it be not a good film . it be a bad one . but it be beautiful .