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Don't be fooled by the Merchant-Ivory tag - - this horrendous Europudding is an abomination from start to finish. Executive produced by Ismail Merchant, it's the preposterous story of American opera diva Elisabeth Beaumont (Dianne Wiest), whose gay French son (Stanislas Merhar) sees his estranged dad (Simon Callow) stabbed by a rent boy. Elisabeth thinks her son is responsible so covers up the crime, setting in motion a ghastly mess involving a lesbian director (Bulle Ogier), Jerry Hall and a lunatic actress (Jane Birkin) with an unhealthy Vanessa Redgrave fetish.
""You must learn to curb your narcissism!"" simpers Birkin, but self-love is the least of this movie's problems. Writer/director Andrew Litvack clearly confuses high camp for high style, saddling his cast with stilted dialogue and encouraging them to make total fools of themselves. The only positive is that this Paris-based caper makes Merchant-Ivory's last effort, Le Divorce, look like a masterpiece in comparison.
Metaphor: ReFantazio had to dial back an early battle system inspired by a notoriously brutal 2003 JRPG, because 20 years later, players found it "irrational" and "just not fun"
Spider-Man's ex Mary Jane Watson is officially Venom, but she and the symbiote are "not together by choice"
At a ridiculously detailed showcase of the open-world engine behind the RPG Crimson Desert, I asked a ridiculously detailed question about water and all hell broke loose
