Those expecting the brand of hefty satire found in And's last film, Long Live Liberty, will have to wait.

The film's strongest suit is its elegant photography and confident mounting, but these virtues do little to offset the script's pervasive weaknesses.

And's film feels entirely manufactured, distancing itself from its audience and blunting its points in the process.

The Confessions is exquisite on a formal and aesthetic level, accompanying in perfect harmony the narrative that doses the information in an ingenious way, with touches of ironic humor in the midst of suspense...