content: You certainly can't fault any performances in this film. Cate Blanchett is superlative. She fascinates. The story and characters pull you in. But it has a strange sort of pacing to it, where just as you feel it's getting started, it ends. It's like you go out to a nice restaurant, have a cocktail and an appetizer, a salad, they pour the wine for the main course.....and then bring you the check.