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Canadian director John Greyson (Lilies) takes actual records from a 1735 sodomy trial in which two Robben Island prisoners off South Africa were sentenced to death by drowning, and he concocts an occasionally intriguing but mostly pretentious downer. Despite solid performances from the main players and plenty of pretty locales and sultry love scenes, Greyson's jarring anachronisms (a gutsy artistic choice that almost never pays off) and the film's overall look of cheapness (it was shot on digital video and frequently comes off looking like high-end porn), limits the picture from becoming anything more than a film-festival oddity. In English and Afrikaans with English subtitles. DVD extras includes radio interview with filmmakers and theatrical trailer.