Dreadful

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2009)

Almost impossible to sit through.
Never for a moment was I transported to the time and place. This may have been Sofia Coppola's intention, but if so, why, in God's name, why? Making a period drama that avoids evoking the period is like making a comedy that doesn't contain laughs or a horror movie with no scares. The whole insipid thing plays out like a bunch of college students romping around Versailles in expensive (Oscar winning!) costumes to a rock soundtrack.
It's hard to imagine anyone bungling the story, such as it was, any more thoroughly without blowing up the sets.
Godawful.