I'm extremely comforted to see the comments of other users here, who have quite rightly pointed out that this dreadful exercise in tedium should be castigated rather than lauded.

The movie boasts competent cinematography, and Bill Murray -- always watchable -- sleepwalks through a script (a script!?? Is anyone sure this wasn't improvised?!?) directed with bland nothingness by a girl who, had she had different parents, nobody would blink twice about.

There is literally nothing to recommend this movie. How Johanssen won a British BAFTA for her performance in this is utterly, utterly baffling. To say that she has a finite range, is inferring she has a range that can actually go from "A" to "B". In both this and the equally overrated "Girl With A Pearl Earring", it seems her capabilities lie in exclaiming "Oh!", as if she'd suddenly remembered she'd left her purse somewhere.

God help the film industry, when the unwashed masses seem to regard drivel like this as a masterpiece.