Opportunity wasted in pseudo-Shakespeare adaptation from Aregntina

Honestly the Argentine film Viola sounded like a great idea from the blurb - an Argentine bike messenger joins a Shakespeare troupe performing Twelfth Night and the boundaries between life and stage blur - I could imagine the possibilities, using the staged play about cross-dress courtship as a way to do the same - and there have been so many good adaptations on this play, recently, for example, She's the Man - but has there ever been a more boring movie than this one? We see nothing about "Viola's" life before the "joins" the troupe - she seems already to be a part of it; then we see a long scene from TN, which is fine so far as it goes; then four of the women in the troupe in the dressing room discuss various thoughts about love, in a dialogue that's not very interesting (the many closeups of the actresses are quite beautiful, as they take off and reapply makeup, kind of like a Lautrec painting on film) and the Viola actress decides to try to seduce the Olivia actress. Then a very long scene in which they go over again and again the lines of the courtship scene, leading at long last to a kiss. That's as far as we got, honestly. This movie would be better if we could see the actresses change, grow, feel some edge as they went through the same lines again and again - rehearsal scenes can be great in movies for advancing character and plot, for showing the many nuances that actors can get out of the same material- who can forget Naomi Watts's rehearsals in Mulholland Drive, for example? - but here they say the same lines again and again and again w/ no change in expression or inflection. Opportunity (and 30 minutes) wasted.