Started to fall asleep at 20 minutes and it's 3 hours long.... Is it trying to be different or pretentious? Who cares it's boring as hell. Go watch a stage play if you want a superior alternative. If you want a movie that melds cinema with stage, and one that looks unique, watch The Cook, The Theif, His Wife and Her Lover. Long leisurely story? Read a book, it's better. I don't understand why anyone would watch this other than to fool themselves that they've seen something arty and therefore of high quality or meaning. Watching paint dry (coloured with subject matter that cries for awards), the movie. The characters were suitably empty of life. Dialogue didn't carry any weight.

The way it was shot was awful. The half shaky camera to try and make us engaged only succeeded in enducing nausea or as some nystagmus simulator. I've seen this style done wag better. Close ups so close, I could almost see skin cells. Editing so disjointed i thought i was watching with a split personality syndrome from different areas. The narrator didn't help me stay awake. He sounded like something from a Mr Kipling advert reading a fairy tale.

I admire the effort to tell a story differently but this was bad. Essentially it tries to make the story speak for itself but it's too long and boring and then presented awfully. I can only think that Kidman took the role to add to her serious roles list, and be self authenticated as a serious actress.