This was… kinda… huh. I don’t know; in some ways it was an interesting look into the life of a Venetian courtesan, and in some ways it was wanky and over-blown. The romance didn’t feel realistic, and if they would have canned that and just made it be more about Veronica’s life, it would have been one million times more interesting – and probably would have got the recognition it visually deserved as a period piece. As it stands, it’s more like a tawdry romance novel with an unattractive cast. (Seriously. I’m not going to bother looking up who played the male lead, but that was fuglier fug than ever fugged before.) Candle-lit heterosexual sex scenes can only take a film so far, and the same goes for field-frolicking montages set to dreamy instrumental pieces. Mnngh.