Well made, but disturbingly hateful toward women

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 1999)

It is a sad commentary on our current culture that nearly everyone seems to blindly accept or ignore that this film is fundamentally hateful toward women. Yes, once again Cannes has fallen in love with a film where every women is a whore (at best)... Why can't the male imagination find room for an intelligent female character, or a female character with any agency... or really even a female character at all... The allusion to Chaplin seems particularly sad to me... yes, the film has slapstick, but I found it disturbingly bereft of the more subtle humor, empathy and inner warmth, which underlies Chaplin's truly great films...