This is so amazingly beautiful. It’s violent and sexual without being crude. It’s like medieaval art on film or european films. It’s almost religious in nature. And it’s about love and pain. It’s amazing and even a bit funny.

A gruesome tale well told with overpowering visuals ranging from the sensual and sublime to the downright nasty and dirty. I wonder how the American public with its squeamishness about nudity will react to the ending. I’m sure the serial killer aspect won’t bother them. Anyway, an original movie based on a original book. Well worth watching. The voice-over was a trifle marring and overbearing at times.

I never read the book, so I wasn’t expecting the ending at all. It went off into an even weirder and more ridiculous ending than I could have ever imagined and I loved it for that! It embraced it’s inherent wackiness with such gusto that I had to giggle and found it quite enjoyable.