![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this is not immediately forthcoming, as the entire setup of forlorn, unemployed Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) chancing into a stint as social secretary to the romantically overextended American thesp Delysia feels arch and forced, obliging composer Paul Englishby to work overtime to provide a little bounce.Ī flighty, self-dramatizing beauty, Delysia is the kept woman of tough guy Nick (Mark Strong), in whose club she regularly performs for the swank set of London, 1939. Style set by helmer Bharat Nalluri (the miniseries “Tsunami: The Aftermath,” the feature “The Crow III: Salvation”) plays into this format and the theatrical milieu, as he places full responsibility for the film’s early effectiveness on the comic timing of his two leads. ![]() If not previously informed that the film is based on a novel, any viewer would be justified in imagining it originated as a stage farce long scenes, including most of the opening stretch, are confined to the fabulous art-deco apartment occupied by aspiring star Delysia Lafosse (Adams), while other lengthy sequences are set in the Savoy Hotel ballroom and in a swank nightclub, with characters entering and departing as if on cue. ![]()
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