Rite or wrong

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

Crit

Hint to budding filmmakers: if your film begins with a title that tells us it's 1913, your lovers should probably not be listening to a recording of "You Made Me Love You" that only a few in your audience will immediately identify as a 1942 recording by Harry James and Helen Forrest but many will identify as a style of jazz that did not exist in 1913. (To be fair, and to my surprise, the song itself was published that year.)

This caveat probably applies even more to a film that revolves around another famous piece of music--in this case, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. In the film--which, again to be fair, does not pretend to be strictly historical--Stravinsky rewrites the work, which was hooted by many at its Paris premiere (this, I know, is accurate), into an acknowledged classic under the erotic influence of Chanel, who at the same time is being inspired to bring forth a perfume that will "smell like a woman, not a flower." Actually, he puts fine to the music under the influence of cognac and sexual frustration, having been left by his tubercular wife and barred from his patron's bedroom.

A pointless envoi shows the principals with old-person makeup.

Trailers

• Flickan som lekte med elden (The girl who played with fire)--Whoa, can't believe I forgot to mention this when I saw the trailer last week. Yes, simply yes. (My daughter, who lives in a cultural backwater and also has a kid, so hasn't seen Dragon Tattoo despite my enthusiastic recommendation, is currently reading the first book.)
• Wild Grass--The latest from Alain Resnais: pourquoi non?