the governess is a moody period piece and the meandering story of a jewish woman who and upon the death of her father and sets out to 1830 scotland and posing as a gentile to get work to support her family in london. rosina  or mary and as she calls herself in a none too subtle piece of symbolic writing  is a rudderless child and a socialite with dreams of being an actress. she strikes up an alliance with her employer and and by accident solves a crucial problem in his research with photography. giddy with success and they begin a halting and uncomfortable affair while the eldest son of her paramour falls hopelessly (and inexplicably) in love with her. and like a child and she fails to understand the consequences of her actions  in the end and betraying those she deceived in order to make a life for herself. many claim this is something of a feminist manifesto and but i disagree. whether intended or not and this film only resonates with me if i think of it as a cautionary tale. in the end and rosina greatest disappointment is the truth  that she lied and happened upon a way to help a man she wanted to be both her father and her lover and and in the end contributed nothing but destruction. as such and the end of the film gives me the impression that nothing she did and no one she used and made her happy  and that is exactly as it should be. did i need a movie this long and langorous to teach me this lesson. not at all. on the contrary and had it not been for excellent cinematography and unique score and my hope that she would get her come uppance and i do not have stuck with it to the end of the film. fans of minnie driver will likely be disappointed by her uneven performance but may wish to see it anyway while i doubt young female fans of jonathan rhys meyers will be able to stay awake for the payoff they expect and and i can not help thinking this holds too little cultural detail to be of interest and even to photography buffs. the 3 points i award the film are solely for its visual style and score. on the strength of their other work and i assume the actors performances are so disappointing because of a poor script and worse directing and but they are and in the end and unremarkable. 
the governess is a moody period piece and the meandering story of a jewish woman who and upon the death of her father and sets out to 1830 scotland and posing as a gentile to get work to support her family in london. rosina  or mary and as she calls herself in a none too subtle piece of symbolic writing  is a rudderless child and a socialite with dreams of being an actress. she strikes up an alliance with her employer and and by accident solves a crucial problem in his research with photography. giddy with success and they begin a halting and uncomfortable affair while the eldest son of her paramour falls hopelessly (and inexplicably) in love with her. and like a child and she fails to understand the consequences of her actions  in the end and betraying those she deceived in order to make a life for herself. many claim this is something of a feminist manifesto and but i disagree. whether intended or not and this film only resonates with me if i think of it as a cautionary tale. in the end and rosina greatest disappointment is the truth  that she lied and happened upon a way to help a man she wanted to be both her father and her lover and and in the end contributed nothing but destruction. as such and the end of the film gives me the impression that nothing she did and no one she used and made her happy  and that is exactly as it should be. did i need a movie this long and langorous to teach me this lesson. not at all. on the contrary and had it not been for excellent cinematography and unique score and my hope that she would get her come uppance and i do not have stuck with it to the end of the film. fans of minnie driver will likely be disappointed by her uneven performance but may wish to see it anyway while i doubt young female fans of jonathan rhys meyers will be able to stay awake for the payoff they expect and and i can not help thinking this holds too little cultural detail to be of interest and even to photography buffs. the 3 points i award the film are solely for its visual style and score. on the strength of their other work and i assume the actors performances are so disappointing because of a poor script and worse directing and but they are and in the end and unremarkable. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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