Watching this period costume drama has left me in a bind: should I analyze it at the level of its lavish production and execution or should I focus on the fact that it is one ginormous mess of a movie? I should qualify by stating that the fact that I call it a "mess" does not at all mean that it is by any stretch a bad movie. In fact, quite the opposite. There are several sequences in the film that seemingly emerge from an altogether better ...