The copy line “first love burns brightest” sounds like it’s aimed at younger women but the film, a rigorous visitation and recreation of early 19th Century England, is made to order for 30-plus women, older couples and X-factor types. I’m just imagining the reactions of the most notoriously vapid demographic in the history of civilization to Jane Campion Barry Lyndon-ish capturings through Greig Fraser‘s Vermeer-like photography.

July 18, 2009by Jeffrey Wells6 Comments