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I guess that the book, with a thin and kliché basic story, and many aspects, the poems, the Q&As, the talk with Anders Agger, is not easy to transform to a movie. Partly because the wisdom in the book becomes very heavy when spoken on film. Partly because it becomes fragmented, bricks of a story rather than a chain. The part with the hotel owner, is fun and part of it all, but does not really add much to the big big picture. The same can be said about the Anders Agger parts, and he is not much of an actor.

Still I think the movie is worth watching, it's fun, it's well played, you are entertained. But it is soon forgotten.

Luca Guadagnino, Tilda Swinton, and Ralph Fiennes in a movie, that must be good. Well yes, it is kind of, but it does not really get there.

The main reason is, I think, that the story is too thin, we are never really going deep enough, there is too much idling and too many dead ends, to many things we have a glance at, but never have a chance to dig into and understand.

Tilda and Ralph is excellent as usual, but the rest has too little to work with. Preventing one of the main characters from speaking does not make it any easier, in a film that is that much about words.

The scenery is of cause brilliant, the images nice to look at. But there is just too little going on in this beautiful frame.

I had looking forward to this, the review were good, 8 stars on imdb, so how could it not be good.

Well it is not good, it's a cliché, build on the same pattern as so many series since early seventies. There is good and bad, there is high tension from start to finish, there is love and there is tough guys and gals, but it all empty and nothing. There is words that falls like concrete blocks and looks that are mend to mean a lot but is nothing but empty glare. There is characters as thin as those Japanese doors.

I gave it a chance, I lasted one whole episode, and I think I was brave.

Maybe I'm not made for shows like this.