Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20478 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-04-09
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

Customer Reviews

Interesting Daniel Craig Flick
This movie is based on a bizarre true story.

Agnes (Greta Scacchi)is a wealthy Englishwoman in late 1800's Ireland who owns an estate in a small Irish village. She enjoys scandalizing the locals by being a divorced woman who smokes, drinks, and rides horses astride on her vast property.

When she sees James (Daniel Craig) at a local country fair she becomes immediately fascinated by the wild, blue-eyed Irishman who wins a brutal horserace.

James is younger than her, and beneath her social status...entirely inappropriate. But this is a woman who thrives on being seen as scandalous, so she enters into an affair with James with relish & delight.

He's a wild man, as well as a bit of a con artist, and the fact that they both seem to delight in taunting "proper" society seems to please her that much more.

But as time passes his wild behavior becomes more & more erratic, and eventually it becomes downright scary. He's unstable, and she's realizing it much too late, after he's insinuated himself pretty deeply into her isolated life.

The movie is a little uneven in quality, and slow in parts. But those interested in Daniel Craig will find this a fascinating movie. Because of the con-artist tendencies of his character he assumes a variety of guises, accents & costumes, and as an actor I'm sure he had fun with the role. Greta Scacchi, as always, delivers a fine top-notch performance.

Another Good Daniel Craig Performance
This is a strange movie indeed. Although it is marred by a story line that is hard to follow, the film is redeemed ultimately by the acting of both Greta Scacchi (Agnes MacDonnell) who at times resembles Emma Thompson and Daniel Craig who plays a character named James Lynchehaun. Much of the action takes place in Ireland in 1896 and indeed is about both love and rage. MacDonnell, a well-to-do restless woman has a torrid but ultimately devastating affair with Lynchehaun, a passionate man beneath her station.

The plot has many strange and unlikely twists and turns; the print-- at least in the DVD I rented-- is almost impossible to read; and the film needed a better editor. On a positive note, however, in addition to the fine acting by Scacchi and Craig, the scenery is exquisitely photographed and a joy to behold.

Great acting, horrible story
The acting in this movie is wonderful, but the story itself is horrible. There are lots of twists and turns, most of which come completely out of the blue and with no explanation. The viewer is left lost for most of the movie.