An average movie

Since Sofia  Coppola is usually an interesting director, I was quite eager to watch this movie and since it won the Golden Lion at Venice  Film Festival, I hoped it would be pretty good. Unfortunately, it turned out to only slightly better than 'The Bling Ring', the movie Coppola made afterwards. One of her trademarks is that nothing much really happen in her movies, which is not necessarily a problem, but this movie must the least eventful  one she has made so far. Basically, for 90 mins, you follow some famous movie star doing pretty much nothing and, unsurprisingly, the guy feels pretty bad about it but, even though I wasn't really bored, I don't think I really cared either. Apparently, the only meaningfull  thing in his life was his daughter with whom he had never spent much time before and, indeed, at some point, I started to feel a connection with these 2 characters but it happened way too late in the movie. I don’t know, maybe she tried to show how vacuous and meaningless the life of a star can be but, once again, I just didn’t care much. At least, I have to admit it,  Stephen Dorff  did pull it off fairly nicely, even though this material was rather thankless, in my opinion. To conclude, even though it didn’t really work for me, it was still a decent watch and I think it is still worth a look, especially if you're interested in Sofia Coppola's work.

6/10