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If you adore The Godfather, you'll adore this series. I was hooked after the first 5 minutes. I'm also now officially in love with Matthew Goode. Oh, those wily Brits and their amazing ability to do spot-on American accents! Burn Gorman is also great, and it's wonderful to see Juno Temple in a role that's worthy of her talents. Absolutely everyone is great in this series. The sets, costumes, makeup, cars, scenery, etc., impeccably evoke the period. Do yourself a favor and don't miss this series!

Terrific acting by all of the principal players, especially Hoss as the "bad girl" Rosemarie, whose heartbreak is no less real for the fact that she's a high-priced prostitute. An intelligent, compassionate, forthright film about the Wages of Sin and about the fact that those wages are often paid threefold by women with no economic power or social status who remain at the bottom of the heap while the elite pay next to nothing for the indulgence of their vices and snicker all the way to the bank. Sounds like an old theme, and it is, but this film puts a fresh face on it, with a sharp-tongued screenplay and lots of great 1950s clothing and decor.

If you liked the intense British film "Dance with a Stranger," you'll probably like "A Girl Called Rosemarie." Both films are about feisty, doomed women who fall in love with the wrong men and suffer deeply for it. Various arias and symphonic excerpts from the Verdi opera "La Traviata" (about a doomed courtesan) are used to excellent effect in the soundtrack of "A Girl Called Rosemarie." The spoken German is crisp and enjoyable, and the English subtitles are clear and unobtrusive. Enjoy!

Overrated, over-hyped, overlong, over-slow, and not at all among the best Korean films right now. There are so many paths that lead nowhere in this film, so many pointless "atmospheric" interior shots, so much intentionally and needlessly vague dialog, so many interminable closeups of wide-eyed faces, so much choppy editing and pompous plot meandering, and such a p**s-poor "punchline" that after squirming through almost 2 hours of this film I felt cheated and annoyed.

A weak screenplay is still a weak screenplay no matter how much good acting, gimmicky camera work, and spooky music you throw at it. I don't need or want all the "answers" spoon-fed to me during a ghost story, but there's a huge difference between 1) using legitimate plot elements to build suspense carefully toward a solid climax or conclusion and 2) dumping a ton of red herrings on an audience and then expecting that audience to concoct its own conclusion with little or no help from the plot.

"A Tale of Two Sisters" ultimately cops out into number 2, which is too bad because it could have been a superb film had the screenplay been better and the director less self-indulgent. Lately, I've found Korean films in virtually all genres to be for the most part superb, but "A Tale of Two Sisters" is a huge let-down.