ponderato

Personally, I found it really interesting to learn stuff about the situation of common inmates during the period and this prisioner's association, but I think that, just like "Argentina 1985", it would have made a much better documentary than a feature film. I found it far too long and repetitive, and at times tedious. It would have been stronger had it been half an hour shorter. The guards also, are represented as an uniformly evil bunch and their stereotypical brutality would have been more suited to the likes of a Rambo kind of film, particularly considering that it claims to purport a real story.

Wonderful experience. Not much in the way of plot or flow and, so what? It's just a feast for the senses. It is seeing the 18th century come alive in all its minutiae. Reminds me of Hard to be a God. Same kind of sensations. Obviously not for everyone, but I loved it.

(These last few words just to satisfy the six hundred characters requirement. Sorry, but I haven't got anything else to say. It is simply a fenomenal work of art, as previously stated above. I could repeat it one, two three..., a hundred times, but the message wouldn't be any clearer. Don't they know these IMDB people (of all people) that less is more!

This could have been a great little film with better pacing and better talent. The parents, particularly the dad, are well over acted and I've seen much better kid actors playing the ox and the donkey in school nativities.