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Title: Underwhelming
Review: The problem isn't the length per se, or that the movie doesn't shy away from Wagner's anti-Semitism. The problem is that the movie has nothing to say. The dialogue is laughably arch, the narrative the same familiar story, and the attempts at arty cinematography generally pointless. And there's absolutely no rhyme or reason to what music is played when, let alone how these mischosen excerpts sound once they're spliced together. There's just nothing going on in this film.If, on the other hand, you're attracted to anodyne paeons to l'art pour l'art, or fancy costumes, or garishly performed and mindlessly repeated excerpts of a few dramaturgically suspect musical snippets, this might just be up your alley.
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