…tificiality going on. The whole film has a weird dissociative tone where no one seems to be genuine. Either Żuławski purposefully removes realism and replaces it with something stilted and seemingly off-kilter, as Lynch does in many of his films, or Żuławski is stumbling through dialogue that just doesn’t work. The awkward dialogue results in awkward acting. Neither Sam Neill nor Isabelle Adjani manages to ma…