> this was a film about images.

Yeah, I'm with you. I thought the fountain death scene had a lot of potential, but I couldn't help but notice reflections of the film crew in windows, boom mics in shots and pretty much every other mistake a film maker can make - for me there is no excuse for that kind of thing, even if the project is interesting and ambitious. As for the acting, well I thought E. Hawke did a pretty good job; he always seems to get paired with a poor partner, IMO (see Linklater's 'Before Sunrise'). I think Ophelia was worse than any school play and it has nothing to do with an accent.