Let's misbehave

Easy Virtue

Crit

A perfectly inoffensive entertainment based on a play by Noel Coward (filmed 80-odd years ago as a silent by a young Englishman--I really should Netflix that version).

Jessica Biel struck me in the trailer as better than I thought she was capable of being, but in the event that's true only when she's called to be brazen; sensitive and wounded she doesn't do as well.To the extent that the film is carried at all, it's carried by the grownups--Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth, and Kris Marshall as the butler (think Jeeves but with Bertie's taste for the sauce)--and by the period segment of a soundtrack inexplicably adulterated with songs from the past three decades.