Title: Rendering the Nuances of Love
Review: If you're looking for exceedingly exacting period costumes and settings, this may not be for you. There are many fine location shots and the costuming is good. The cinematography has a slightly surreal tone, appropriate for disclosing the inner life of its characters. But the subtle work of the British actors and actresses make up for any minor insufficiencies, rendering the life of a man who would not let his epoch incarcerate him, but who was determined to travel the world to understand the considerable dimensions of human love, including many perhaps unanticipated. I found this BBC rendition probably the most mature and moving version of this man's lifetime to be found out there in the historical media. This film makes questions of historicity moot and subsidiary to the realm and verities of truly human experience through the life of an exceptional man. Compare, e.g., Marcello Mastroianni's rendition in La Nuit de Varennes.
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