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This was a huge disappointment. Totally boring story, actors clearly not motivated, chaotic script. The hugest disappointment this year. The 2nd star only for the production itself. And please: create some good monsters for crying out loud!

I chose this movie only because I have such respect for Nicole Kidman's work and career. So the disappointment was even bigger when realizing how extremely boring and dull film this was. The story develops very slowly, the dialogues are dreary, the characters are uninteresting. I never watched Monster with Charlize Theron since she is far too beautiful to be molested by that make-up (this is not meant in a disrespectful way). I though I should give Kidman a chance, but the make-up is so bad and unrealistic, coupled with her walking around like drug addict; I felt betrayed. And the many close-up scenes do not make anything better. Even worse is it to watch the relationship between Kidman and her 16 year old daughter; I cannot understand how Kidman firstly took this part, and secondly why she deliberately delivers dialogues like the ones with her daughter. There is only one word to describe this: embarrassing. Save your money and stay home (or watch another film, but not this). Don't say that you haven't been warned.

There is little to criticize about this film. I haven't read the book that the movie is based upon, so I cannot judge how these two go along. But the film is well acted, with Glenn Close in a very memorable role. The different time epochs are well captured, incl. a credible Stockholm section that fills up most of the movie. Very early in the film you feel all the unspoken tensions within the family, and they develop during the film's length in an intense and plausible manner. All other main characters are also very well casted, but of course this is Glenn Close's movie - an Oscar nomination is guaranteed.

I won't give away how the film ends, but this is all but a feelgood movie. Although the main part of the film takes part during the 1990's, the film's topics reg. patriarchy is even today very relevant in most Western societies, thus making it a very interesting topic for a film.

You will not regret watching this (close to a) masterpiece.