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From: blp Category: Films Date: 18 April 2008 Time: 07:52 AM Review: Eh oui. C'est ridicule, alors: un hospital completement plein des femmes sexy. Or. Leching was OK this time because the lech, he was doomed. What does it mean, this movie? What is the meaning of its beauty in particular? Is it meaningless? - in the sense that this profoundly debilitating thing happened to this man for no reason and then he found himself surrounded by beauty for no reason either? Is this redemptive? Is it that the central character, having been brought low, nevertheless discovers a world of beauty? No, because it's not different enough from his old life as a high-powered fashion journalist, particularly in its repleteness with beautiful women. Even his own attire in his new life remains intensely stylish. Utlimately, it seems the meaning must be that this is a highly bearable, non-disturbing version of extreme disablement, one where everything unendurable about it is left or nullified, rendered palatable through sentimentalised 'good taste', to whit. style. Voila la secrete de son success. A separate, but related question: exactly how badly does it reflect on Tom Waits that his music can be used so seamlessly in a movie like this? Badly, I would say. Worse than it reflects on the Velvet Underground, somehow.