beautiful

Rating: 5/10 (23 December 2012)

On the plus side this film's set design is quite stunning. The backdrops of Paris are also impressively beautiful and almost dream like. It would make you fall in love with Paris and want to visit purely from the visuals (really). The film starts off well enough and maintains some sort of magical allure for the first hour but then becomes decidedly convoluted and less magical. Adult and real-world problems intrude and the fantastical illusion is rather shattered. I was under the impression this was a borderline kid's film, perhaps I got that wrong. No kid would have the patience for this 2hr+ film that begins to drag around half way. The film becomes hijacked by a plot line based on the famous french film director Georges Méliès. I don't enjoy a huge slap of real life in my fantasy films! Kind of takes away from the point.