(1)Couldn't watch it for very long. I tried because the cinematography was so wonderful but one doesn't want to walk out of the theater whistling the camera work.
(2)Not quite bad enough dialogue to make it unintentionally funny and watchable. (3)Not bad enough acting too: ditto the above. Actually Maria de Medeiros was quite good; the combination of her appearing to be naive while having an erotic mind was very well done. But Uma! Oh poor thing! Was that a Brooklyn accent she was failing to make real? Fred Ward too, wise-guying his way through which made his shallowness the character. A celebrity impersonator.....wonder if he can do Jimmy Cagney or Robert De Niro? 4)Quite often an author is not well served in a movie and in this case the very honest reporter of nitty-gritty life, Henry Miller, was desecrated. Would anyone who had never read him be motivated by this movie to do so? I think not.
(2)Not quite bad enough dialogue to make it unintentionally funny and watchable. (3)Not bad enough acting too: ditto the above. Actually Maria de Medeiros was quite good; the combination of her appearing to be naive while having an erotic mind was very well done. But Uma! Oh poor thing! Was that a Brooklyn accent she was failing to make real? Fred Ward too, wise-guying his way through which made his shallowness the character. A celebrity impersonator.....wonder if he can do Jimmy Cagney or Robert De Niro? 4)Quite often an author is not well served in a movie and in this case the very honest reporter of nitty-gritty life, Henry Miller, was desecrated. Would anyone who had never read him be motivated by this movie to do so? I think not.