It's an odd tonal mixture, lurching from touching moments to overegged stereotypes, with plenty that both young and older viewers will groan to recognise.

The production is so overegged and the vocals so treacly [...] you'll get a sugar rush, but you won't feel good about yourself afterwards.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film two out of five stars, calling it a "hugely overegged pudding of a film," "indulgent," "complacent," and "a film that is very pleased with itself."

“We wanted to show how the Valentino woman today was both delicate and dangerous, fragile and powerful,” they said before their show of all-evening, almost all-black looks, built on nude corsets overlaid with various elaborate and occasionally overegged combinations of lace, ruffles and fur.

Even though there is much to like about Cardiff and Miller's work - its layerings of fiction; its plays on time and space, place and situation; its technical sophistication - it frequently misses the mark, or is so overegged as to make us not care very much about it.