Soporific costume farce, after Marivaux, directed by Clare Peploe, in washed-out color (blown-up 16mm), gashed with nervous little jump-cuts (very short jumps), propped up and hustled along by the music of Rameau. There's a fair amount of alternative-lifestyle titillation: cross-dressing; a woman (disguised as a man) pitching woo to a woman; an outward man (a woman underneath) pitching woo to a man. If, anyhow, that sort of thing titillates you. The kittenish Mira Sorvino, to say nothing of her angel-faced handmaiden, Rachael Stirling, cannot convincingly bridge the gulf between genders. Not even on the suspension-of-disbelief bridge: the closeups detonate it. Ben Kingsley, Fiona Shaw, Jay Rodan. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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