This film is like spending two hours with a very meticulous flower arranger who never once bothers to ask you what you might think. Despite the presence of the always terrific Julianne Moore (forced to play an elderly woman here while Nicole Kidman as the 56-year old Virginia Woolf wears only her fake nose without a wrinkle in sight), this is still to be avoided. They really ought to be offering it "With Score" and "Without Score" so that we might actually view the drama on it's own merits. Miranda Richardson and Toni Collette offer fine support as well but it still makes for a strangely unengaging experience. If you have to, at least bring a bag of cookies, as the wall-to-wall food preparation in this film will make you want to nibble. This film is very full of itself.
