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Pete Doherty’s film ‘Confession Of A Child Of The Century’ has fallen foul of bad critical reviews at Cannes Film Festival.
Starring the former Libertines frontman, the film debuted at Cannes Film Festival, and was met with depressingly bad reviews. Screen Daily’s Lee Marshall claimed that Doherty’s performance was ‘wooden’ in ‘a turgid adaptation’.
"With a more or less permanently bored expression, Doherty looks like he'd rather be somewhere else; he only really comes alive in a few passages of what look like improvised laddish dialogue," Marshall wrote.
"If the intention was to play on Doherty's notoriously chaotic lifestyle in casting him as a libertine (also playing on the name of his former group, The Libertines) the effect is to show him up as a rather timid schoolboy."
Whilst The Evening Standard’s Derek Malcolm said that Doherty was just as talented as his co-star Gainsbourg. "He tries hard, and there are moments which work in the authentic de Musset manner. Otherwise, there are quiet giggles to be had," he wrote.
Based on Alfred de Musset’s 19th Century novel, the film follows the depression of a young man, played by Doherty, after his mistress betrays him. The Film ‘Confession Of A Child Of The Century’, will be available in France in September, however the release date for the UK unknown.
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