Peter Greenaway can bring the best out of skillful actors, like Eva Birthistle and Martin Freeman on lead, but why he wants to use the same manners over and over? Again camera was painting gracely over extented scenes with good actors babling too much. Greenaway can set and shoot, but he has no guts to cut short his scenes. This story was darn too long and boring, and way too similar compared with what he has done before.

Surprisingly engaging new feature from Greenaway. Beautyful, funny and thrilling. Prudes will be put off by the strong language and nerds will complain about factual errors. All of them need to get laid.

The framing and composition is magnificent, very painterly in its own right. And Martin Freeman's characterization of the artist is entertaining. But the plot is quite hard to follow, with names constantly being thrown around before you've gotten your bearings on who's who. Much of the action is described and speculated on after the fact rather than shown, which makes it tougher to comprehend. And frankly, it's just too long and dull and talky. Great cinematography, not much else going for it.