If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I've rarely had a more unpleasant experience watching a movie than watching this one. The two sisters are Seriously Messed Up. We know that from, what, minute 3 of the movie? We never get much past that. Despite an hour and a half of material, much of it laden with seemingly significant flashbacks, we never quite get to what the hell is actually behind all this gauzy art-house pretentiousness.It's great to enjoy a movie, and clearly some people do enjoy this one. I'm happy for you if you're one of them. Seriously, though, if you are inspired by this movie to go out and make something similar, please consider making the following improvements on it so that the rest of us can enjoy it too: * At some point, get around to explaining the premise. We want to know what is happening. Being a tease is fine for the first X minutes of a movie, but not for the entire thing.* Let the audience connect (as in relate) to your characters sooner or later. Otherwise, we can't care about them. If they aren't real to us, their emotions are irrelevant to us.* Offer something beyond unpleasantness and tragedy, or prepare for obscurity (meaning, we aren't coming). We don't always need a shiny, happy ending, but let some sunshine at least threaten to break through somewhere along the line. Pure bleakness is always going to be a tough sell. Life already offers us that for free, if we simply go the wrong direction. Depicting it as invincible is depressing -- and unrealistic.If those kinds of major failures don't throw you off, maybe you'll like this movie. Otherwise, trust the low rating. It's deserved.

I'd like to get this movie in a very much artistic way. The two sisters issue is a reflection of an experiment that a father did on his children. The alchemist topic in the movie is relevant just in the main history, but the personality of two sisters that connect each other and link their own thoughts (even with their dad's thoughts)is definitely a wonderful description of what the real art is. I remember the many scenes of Grace painting, and the messages the father left into her consciousness; all of that meaning that the art is life and life is art (a real paradox of an artist). This is just an example of many scenes in the film.I conclude that the movie is really worth to be seen, specially if you are an artist (musician, painter, writer, or any kind of art you do)

Now , we have the 2 sisters and the drifter. why are they there no one knows, what exactly is the relation between the 2 sisters, well it is up to you to decide because simply the script writer did not know.Such a pretentious movie that may fool some people as being an arty one.Even the love scenes lacked any chemistry or beauty , you just want to fast forward all through the whole movie. the material they had at hand with the three characters triangle had a lot of potentials but all gone to waste with a badly written and directed movie The only good thing about it was the wardrobe, a very colourful assortment of their parents clothes and of course the soundtrack .so if that would tempt you to see it you go ahead or just simply stay away

How anyone can sit through this exhausting and ultimately irritating film is beyond my grasp. Paper thin acting, jump cuts, and laughable intimations of high art and drama make jack a dull boy. Sex scenes were horrid, think late 80's cine-max of humping each others stomachs, interlaced with Luke warm giggly satin sheet cutaways. I don't care about the characters. I don't care about the story. I can't buy the symbolism or implied "uniqueness" of the piece. Dreary, annoying, juvenile attempt at filmaking. After an hour and a half of this fetid piece of tripe, I too, was ready to ponder suicide, or at the very least return to my local "BallBuster" video and demand my four dollars back. There's only two reasons any carbon based life-form would want to see this movie. Firstly, and with a higher probability of occurrence, you want to see Alicia Silverstone do the wild thing, as the cover and summary would suggest. Secondly, you really want to sink your undergraduate liberal arts teeth into a potentially stimulating film. mark my words... you will all be disappointed. Put that turd back on the shelf where it belongs and pick up "Donnie Darko," or "The Governess."