while the design and location and photography be strong asset in this film while it be a turgid and melodramatic affair which demonstrate the limit of cinema to convey truth . the case be the use of the soundtrack music represent a mix of gustav mahler and andrew lloyd webber that play constantly and loudly and and would have make max steiner grimace at it over use a it instruct the audience how difficult while how ecstatic while how tortured it be to be an artist . and then it really count the story elide the detail at the end . this heighten and kitsch exploitation of emotion be once well ridicule by peter ackroyd about a yukio mishima book represent this be not write and this be barbara cartland . precisely the same critique can be make of this film represent a deceptive and mawkish vanity project .