This could easily be one of the worst I have watched lately. The original title made in 1966 didn't impress me much, but I picked up the remake nevertheless - for the sake of Jude Law. Not that I am a great fan - this despite his credible performance in Closer, and the 'campaign of many years by a my Anglophilia cineast friend who was so crazy about him that her email address is simply called ilovejude!
I still cannot pinpoint what went wrong with the film, but Jude Law seemed to be a factor: he had not carried the role well by striking the right note of a sheer womaniser with a sleeping conscience. The tone of the film is 'wrong' too: overwhelmed with a moral lecturing for my taste...
A real disaster and the only thing that kept me stayed tuned was the hope that, like some French films, there would be something worthy coming out from a long and boring process. But this reward didn't come. For the level of disappointment, it is in the same category as The Man Who Loves Women by Francois Trufaunt.
