Lost it

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2013)

When this movie was in the theaters I did not see it. The reviews I read were too bad to spend several dollars on it. And that was a difficult decision for me because I like historical films and I liked "Lost in Translation" very much. Recently I fished the movie out of a bargain bin for one dollar and watched it at home. Well, I tried to watch it. After the second levee I switched to the special features and watched Father Coppola tell us that he advised his daughter to treat this film like a big Marie Antoinette party where everybody is invited to show up in costumes. That may explain some of it. But I do not like to watch parties. Especially one where everybody but me is high on marijuana and is completely self-absorbed and I am left out. I suffered through some parties in Hollywood which were exactly like this.
Obviously Sophia Coppola, the costume designer and the pastry chef went gaga and spent most of the forty million production costs on costumes and cakes. So there was no money left for script, acting, actors, music or anything which usually makes a movie. And as the one who watches the movie they did not let me eat cake nor wear costumes.
I also read that this movie was planned before "Lost in Translation" was made and only because Sophia had difficulties figuring it out, she wrote and made Lost in Translation first. I really hope that Lost in Translation was not a one hit wonder. It seems nearly unconceivable that this director can turn out such a sensitive movie like Lost in Translation and then directs a complete and utterly piece of fluff like this one.
Only because of all her connections in Hollywood she got an Oscar for costumes, because otherwise there is no justification for it, there must be a movie attached to the costumes, there wasn't. And what about that Jewish Dauphin?, only reading through the comments here I learned that she is related to him. If I would not have seen Lost in Translation I would have dismissed the whole thing as daddy bought his daughter a forty million toy. Now I wait and see what she will do next.