Audrey Tautou

At its best delineating the absurdities of immigrant life lost in the London rat race.

When Jeunet attempts to achieve dramatic heft, with no commensurate change in style, he falls distressingly short.

Too measured to be lively, too skittish to be provocative, too dramatically slack to be more than a ploddingly literal book-on-film.

A rather dull and unchallenging account of one woman's ambitious social climb in a man's world...If Chanel's early years were really this boring, why bother with them?