deWitt’s novel, and there has been very little effort put into making his literary creations resemble actual humans.“Did you drink to the brink of sound reason?” she asks Malcolm, a poorly served Hedges, at the breakfast table. “Were you driven to insomnia by the silence of your muse?”Can I get a refund?After Malcolm tells Frances about the girl he’s been seeing, she exclaims: “Oh!
To be young-ish and in-love-ish.” The dialogue is as natural as WD-40 and nowhere near as smooth.The movie improves once we’re in France.
That makes sense. French cinema — and, well, the French in general — is not short on pretention or chilly stares off into space.
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