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Title: meaningless, empty, god awful
Review: What is this film trying to say? Whom is it trying to reach, and how? Did the filmmakers ever ask these questions? They sure didn't answer them. (How fitting that a film about a director struggling with a script shouln't have one.)Assuming this was a musical -- was it? -- I doubt there has ever been one with such non-catchy songs: banal music, grade-school lyrics. If ever a musical could use a huge shot of Steven Soundheim this is it. Leonard Bernstein wouldn't hurt either.Judi Dench gives a solid performance, as does Marion Cotillard. Otherwise, nothing. Couldn't believe when credits rolled that Anthony Minghella had anything to do with this. (This is a guy who used to write Morse scripts, for God's sake.)
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