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Directed By
Stephan Elliott
Written By:
Stephan Elliott, Noel Coward, Sheridan Jobbins
Cast:
Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, Kimberley Nixon, Katherine Parkinson, Kris Marshall, Christian Brassington, Pip Torrens, Joanna Bacon, John Warburton, Georgie Glen, Stephan Elliott, Sheridan Jobbins, Laurence Richardson
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Easy Virtue (2009)
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Movie Review by Zara 
September 19th, 2009
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Aside from some top tier acting from Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth, for the most part this movie about an American woman who decides on a whim to marry a British young man while she's in France after being disqualified from an auto race because she's a woman, I was rather bored with this movie.
Sure, the cinematography is fantastic and the lovely attention to period detail with the costumes is great, but there's something about Jessica Biel, try as hard as she might and she really does try hard to carry this role, that just didn't mesh. Her character doesn't fit in with her new in-laws and she does not fit in with the movie. It is as if she's acting alone while everyone else is carrying on around her in their own movie. I know that Biel is trying to be a more serious actress and I can see the sweat from her in attempting to pull that off, but I really don't think that this type of material is something that she's suited for.
The movie also annoyingly tries to integrate more modern music into the soundtrack, done up in a style from the period and it ends up being more distracting than charming, as I am sure was its intention. All in all, this isn't the movie that I would go out of my way to hunt down and watch. It just happened to be something that I thought I should try and watch out of my "I've seen everything Biel has been in" crusade. I doubt that I would have bothered with it under any other circumstances.
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