Charlotte Gainsbourg

The sum of Gondry's parts may be a hole, but the parts can be pretty darn clever and captivating.

All too successful in evoking the simple-mindedness of its immigrant naifs and the interminability of the Atlantic passage.

The director's emotional sadism and laughable bluntness in his symbolic approach leave us in the cold, to pick through the art-auction catalog of Manuel Alberto Claro's cinematography and contemplate Dunst's award-winning suffering.