I knew nothing about this film when I started watching it, but gradually some details of it gave me some sense of familiarity. I recognized it but could not place it. These details turned up more and more, and suddenly it dawned upon me: This is Ibsen! Yes, he had been transformed and dressed up (or down) into Australian settings out in the wilderness, and some excellent players made justice to the leading characters, mainly Sam Neill and Geoffrey Rush. Although it was all perfectly Australian and in modern times, still Ibsen shone mercilessly through, with the same gradually increasing and towering destiny of doom leaving no one out of the devastation. Was it a successful transition? Yes and no. What was missing was the clarity of Ibsen as here it was too easy to confuse some characters with each other, and as it was a theatre play, transformed into a film almost in the dark of the jungle the drama was partly lost in almost dogma scenery muddled up in darkness. It was not entirely successful, while the drama will be as shocking and upsetting as the original in whatever settings it will be presented.