Jamie Stuart‘s fifth and final New York Film Festival video report delivers a slight diss to Pan’s Labyrinth director-writer Guillermo del Toro by implying he’s long-winded (and thus boring, which Guillermo never is), and gives a pass to Sofia Coppola and Marie-Antoinette by saying that the Austrian queen’s idle distractions in Versailles serve as a metaphor for the human condition in general and denial in particular. Stuart is a talented filmmaker, but to end his NYFF with a Coppola-Kirsten Dunst bendover…shattering. Unless he meant it as a put-on.
