I would be very interested to hear what type of film the 'stars' of this film thought they were making. It seems from the 'Extras' documentary that Daniel Auteuil thinks he is in a comedy where he is playing some sort of ego-crazed Don Juan - which is exactly the way he plays it! The problem is that the Director, Pascal Bonitzer, thinks that he is making some portentous fable based on Dante's "Inferno", but he simply appears to have failed to communicate this fact to his actors, particularly Kristin Scott Thomas, who is 'all over the place' and is clearly adding her own input. Add this lack of communication and lack of firm direction to a script that looks as if it has been made up 'on the hoof', and the result is a 'turkey' with a woeful inconsistency of tone.
It is particularly galling to see the wonderful Emmanuelle Devos wasted in this nonsense.
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