A film that's a total mess, but in kind of a beautiful way.

| Mar 19, 2009

Franois Ozon is a Gallic Michael Winterbottom, if not in style then at least in his determination to do something different every time. As with Winterbottom, sometimes the result is great and sometimes not.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008

The French director Franois Ozon has taken Elizabeth Taylor's beadily satiric novel and transformed it into a droll and somewhat disturbing fantasia on the creative temperament.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Choosing to clothe his whole movie in the outr frocks of a bad Technicolor romance, Ozon serves up camp fun, but that's it.

| Aug 29, 2008

But this really is a failure - an honourable failure, arguably, but a failure, and a pretty complete one at that.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2008

The film bristles with contemporary subtext and takes swipes at mediocre artists who believe their own press, and the culture of celebrity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Ozon's film plays a difficult hand, never settling for all-out high kitsch or straight melodrama. One of the year's most charming failures.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Aug 29, 2008

Garai is great, but Ozon is about as adept at directing Brits as Woody Allen. Mind you, the set and costumes are glorious: this is one expensive folly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2008