Cracks: This glossy, good-looking film about love and obssession in an elite British girls' school gets high marks for production and design, but with two of its leading three actresses turning in consistently overwrought performances it is difficult to salute them or director Jordan Scott. In different hands it might have been a truly sinister film, but what we get is a sort of gorgeous bohemian pot boiler, dripping in lovely period detail, but devoid of subtlety or imagination.
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky: Another offering to the gods of style (knockout wardrobe!) this lush, expensive film about the seduction of Stravinsky by Coco Chanel starts out well, with its raw and breathless performance of
The Rite of Spring, but it quickly deteriorates into standard genre conventions made all the more turgid by a moronic script. Even with the hypnotic screen presence of actor Mads Mikkelson it is an inexplicably banal and meaningless experience.
Cracks: This glossy, good-looking film about love and obssession in an elite British girls' school gets high marks for production and design, but with two of its leading three actresses turning in consistently overwrought performances it is difficult to salute them or director Jordan Scott. In different hands it might have been a truly sinister film, but what we get is a sort of gorgeous bohemian pot boiler, dripping in lovely period detail, but devoid of subtlety or imagination.
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky: Another offering to the gods of style (knockout wardrobe!) this lush, expensive film about the seduction of Stravinsky by Coco Chanel starts out well, with its raw and breathless performance of The Rite of Spring, but it quickly deteriorates into standard genre conventions made all the more turgid by a moronic script. Even with the hypnotic screen presence of actor Mads Mikkelson it is an inexplicably banal and meaningless experience.
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