
A sports photographer in rural Canada sends a picture of a high school athlete, Tina Menzhal, to a Montréal fashion agency. This starts Tina on a career taking her from Canada to Paris to Montréal again, to Manhattan, to the world, and then home, through two boyfriends, two husbands, and innumerable TV interviews, either with nasty smiling scandalmongers or with gushing witless twits. In nearly every case, Tina never gets to finish a sentence. She has a suave agent, paparaz... (Full plot summary below)
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A sports photographer in rural Canada sends a picture of a high school athlete, Tina Menzhal, to a Montréal fashion agency. This starts Tina on a career taking her from Canada to Paris to Montréal again, to Manhattan, to the world, and then home, through two boyfriends, two husbands, and innumerable TV interviews, either with nasty smiling scandalmongers or with gushing witless twits. In nearly every case, Tina never gets to finish a sentence. She has a suave agent, paparazzi are everywhere ("What the celebs forget, there's always a camera," says one), and a documentary filmmaker is on hand as well. What is it that Tina thinks, feels, and wants: will we ever find out?
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| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphIt's hard to get worked up over something so weakly inoffensive. |
| TNT RoughCutSusannah BreslinWhat makes it interesting is the story that the viewer must put together, of a model who lives her entire life -- or at least what we see of it -- in front of the camera. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyIn his observant, swiftly paced Stardom, Arcand does it all with relentless wit, high style, and a suggestion of tragedy. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldIn Arcand's skilled hands, this sassy assembly comes together to be a comedy, a satire and a character study that's somehow not a bit condescending. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIt may be the first movie that mirrors, in its very syntax, the ''snap crackle and pop'' narcotic superficiality of the E! channel. I mean that as a compliment. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineAs empty, superficial and slavish as the celebrity culture it means to satirize. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrFor all the film's cleverness -- and it's often very clever -- it's as thin as its heroine. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyA clever and biting satire from Denys Arcand. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonWith Woody Allen's "Celebrity," Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter" and MTV's "House of Style" predating it by half a decade, this is kind of like clubbing harp seals in a meat locker. |
| Film.comRobert HortonWhat keeps Stardom watchable is Arcand's droll humor. |