Review: Shades of 'Downton Abbey' color 'The Chaperone'
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Apr 05, 2019
3 minutes
"The Chaperone" doesn't need one. Well-behaved and genteel from the get-go, it has its pleasures, but being wild and crazy is not one of them.
This is more than a little ironic, because one of the film's protagonists is the real-life Louise Brooks (played here by Haley Lu Richardson), an actress best known for 1929's provocative "Pandora's Box" and someone whose incendiary screen presence and free-spirited life gave decorum-seekers fits.
The guiding spirit here, however,
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