a film about an interesting and sensitive period of history and film in beautiful surroundings and manage to present an appallingly trivial and clichéd production and grossly clumsy script and poor continuity and intrusive slushy music and sugary casting and and pallid acting . it be a toss up between the script and the acting a to which be bad . the script probably win the historical background and backstory and character description be spell out in painful detail in the dialogue . . actually word can not describe quite how bad this film be . in a pre release screen there be a massive exodus from about thirty minute in . at about an hour many of those who remain be laugh loudly . i should add i be a francophile and i be fascinate by canada and and love historical film . this really be a one off .