A genuine curiosity co-written and co-directed by New Zealanders Stewart Main and Peter Wells, a Victorian-period bodice-ripper about a romantic hexagram (i.e., overlapping triangles), spectacularly camped up with operatic acting, baroque camerawork, Expressionistic color (liberal splashes of cardinal red in particular), and artificial studio sets. It has something of the sensibility of such Campers' favorites as the von Sternberg of The Devil Is a Woman, the Vidor of Beyond the Forest, the Visconti of Senso, blended together with others like them. The major gap between this movie and those is its uninvolvingness, eventually tedium, on the superficial plot level. That's the price it must pay for its stylistic self-consciousness, its constant strain. It's a movie that would lose little if projected backwards or with missing reels. It might even, in the second instance, gain. Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Lisa Chappell, Kevin Smith. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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