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Alan Rickman really kicks it. He did a quite incredibly good job.

Could you want another Rasputin? Excellent acting. He combines that opposition of orgy and foreseeing in a way you cannot help but think this ambivalence is like two sides of the same coin.

nicely made (though I haven t read The Lair... - which is said to be quite confusing). Nice Ken Russell style as always, yet not as opulent and splendid as Gothic. Atmosphere is quite o.k. Some nice splatter and erotic effects too. But approaching the solution there is something you are waiting for which stays unfulfilled. The rescue of Hugh Grant and his beloved is disappointing and boring. Why not giveth em hell and have a destructive ending. Could have been done nicely too. So, a bit too lame and conventional in the end.

This one really hits you in the face. But not because it is good. In fact, it is terrible. Bucqouy is an egoman. It is him talking, it is him trying to womanize, it is him who fails, it is him being offensive towards the actors... it is all about him. But who wants to see that? Even the actors got p***ed off. And the movie, well, in the end there was film material you can show in a cinema, but it was neither a feature film nor was it a documentary of how a movie comes into being. One of the very few movies I must warn you not to watch it. But go ahead if you enjoy spending boring evenings watching silly films.