I kinda just went along for the ride on this one. Read about the original silent production, and the 90s film about a director's hangup for the skin-tight costumed actress and wondered what this would do with it. The plot ambles along about a new version serial production of the original. The cast is fantastic and it is superbly acted. Doesn't really make a big splash, or will be seen on most people's radar, but the crisp snippets of the silent production are fantastic, as are the musical choices. What I found most interesting was the recreations of the silent era mode of production (Musidora's biographical reflections on it too) and the way the central character gets so involved with the part she is playing it causes her to change not only who she is but what she can do. The funny aspects are with the other players and the director seeing his psychiatrist. [spoiler] Only grouch is I really thought she'd hit it off with some one (anyone really she encountered although perhaps autonomy was preferred to being cast into a mire of sentimentality and relatedness) and form some stable relationship, as she did come out of a messy lesbian relationship (she is not exclusively so). [/spoiler] The best thing I've seen Alicia Vikander in frankly. 7/10