Maggie is a bit off key

Maggie Cheung won the Best Actress gong at Cannes for her portrait of the spiteful, addicted rock singer at the centre of French director Olivier Assayas's film. But the casting isn't appropriate - not least, because she isn't a singer.

The film has her hanging on to the remains of her career after her rock-star lover has overdosed fatally.

Nick Nolte, as her forgiving father-in-law, provides some of the better moments of an uneven film. But after the dire Demonlover, one wonders where Assayas, once married to Cheung, is going next.