Angelica

One of the best dramas I've ever seen. The story is well crafted, the cinematography and set design are both beautiful. The acting is solid throughout.

I found every second of this film to be riveting. It's a damn fine film that will have you pondering its intricacies and subtleties long after the credits have rolled.

A Victorian housewife descends into madness over involuntary abstinence due to health issues, dragging her sexually frustrated husband, their only daughter, and the audience through a very slow simmer without a climax. The film could have worked (the cinematography, sets and cast are all excellent), had it not been for the extraordinarily flat characters. They are all completely one-dimensional and only superficially relatable, not by fault of the actors but due to poor writing. After spending an hour and a half in the presence of the downtrodden Constance, I still couldn't describe her character in more than a sentence. Malone gave an excellent performance, as did the rest of the cast, but an actor can only do so much with a dull script.

Victorian England - Newlyweds Malone and Stoppard have a daughter, Angelica, and soon afterwards supernatural events have a significant impact on the mother.

Despite a compelling performance from Malone and a an atmosphere capturing both Victorian society and the spookiness quite nicely, in the end this is actually rather tedious. McTeer's presence adds to the interest, but she seems to making a more typical ghost story, which this is not and whilst the ultimate pay off is interesting and not wholly unexpected, since they've been using to right tools of the trade in making this you do yearn for the film McTeer is making.

Avoid. Terrible overacting awful story. Soft porn? Sort of. Horror? Not scary.

I've just seen this on dvd, rented from my local library, so I didn't spend much on it. It's probably one of the worst films on dvd this year. Extraordinarily boring, completely without horror, if horror's your thing. It isn't mine, but I don't mind watching if the rest of the film around the horror is worthwhile. This isn't. I rented it because Janet McTeer's in it, but even so it's simply not worth watching. Great sets by Luciana Arrighi. Beautiful wallpaper, steals the show.