... and found wanting

Rating: Null/10 (9 January 2004)

inside this one-line idea there's a half-decent movie trying to get out. Coppola allows a full thirty minutes to drift by before the two leads get to speak. Bill Murray has lots of charm in a sub-Cary Grant kind of way and Scarlett is good to look at and does ingenuous well enough - despite being a Yalie - but you really need a tad more than this and the sub-Twelfth Night melancholia around the edges. Charlotte's husband is such a piece of prime elm that you wonder why she ever married him or, given that he drools over a bimbo light-tears away intellectually from his wife, why HE married HER. It's not really good enough to present us with a two-year-old marriage that is foundering in the shallows without either showing or telling about the sparks that ignited it (if any). This is one that you'll either surrender to completely or feel slightly uneasy throughout. 5/10