Qwerty Norris
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Despite having a decent cast & attempting to be a film about the trappings of social climbing in the turn of 20th century France, this is a desperately shambolic work that's badly directed, poorly written, inconsistently performed and horribly edited. Pattison (a guy who has the potential to go onto good things) really struggles here in convincing as a man eager to start making a name for himself in the Parisian social hierarchy after being chewed up by colonial war and fails to carry the film. The supporting cast try their hardest (Kristen Scott Thomas the pick of the bunch) but are let down by some very poor decision making made both from the directors chair (two of which to be precise) and the editing room. The structure of the plot is completely devoid of coherency as well, resulting in all of the beats feeling extremely unnatural. Much like Patinson's character, this is a film that has aspirations of being something profound, yet ultimately is hindered by delusions of grandeur instead. Rubbish.
1/5
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Qwerty's Top 10 of 2013 (so far)
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