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Title: Poetic, but who cares?
Review: This is supposed to be Sophia Coppolla's attempt to translate poetry to the screen, but it ends up just silly and pointless. A major movie star is seen as empty and lonely and depressed. That's the whole thing. Only his 11 year old daughter cheers him up a bit. There's no dialogue at all for the first, I don't know, 15 minutes. That's the first clue that you are in for a bit of an ordeal here. We can't feel too sorry for this dude because he is rich, drives a fancy sports car, has naked women throwing themselves at him, and gets the best of everything wherever he goes. Still, he weeps into the phone to his estranged wife that he is a nothing. The scenes here are very pretty. The locations are interesting. It's just lacking substance. A noble failure.
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