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Disappointing
Pros: beautiful
Cons: not historically accurate
Now, I try not to judge a movie by the book because I believe the film maker has the right to use his own perspective on a movie. However, I couldn9;t help but be dissapointed by this movie. The movie was beautiful but my major problem with it was that it took a historical account of a rape and made it consensual. Artemisia's rape was the inspiration behind so many of her paintings that I just felt this was a major flaw of the movie. I also didn't like how Tassi was portrayed. In reality, he accused Artemisia of being promiscuous and having sex with her father at the trial in order to get out of trouble. Plus, it just seemed an injustice to Artemisia to change her story like this. I would suggest not reading the book or doing any research on her until after you have seen the movie. You might have a better experience with it than I did. ...