Pete Doherty - Photo: Mathieu Zazzo
He might be adored by the music media but film critics are not buying Pete Doherty's acting. His debut in Confession of a Child of the Century was torn to shreds by critics at the famed Cannes film Festival which took place just last weekend.
When the film, which also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lily Cole, was shown to the world's press it sadly got a universal thumbs down.
In the film, Doherty plays Octave, a young man who falls into a deep depression
and debauchery after discovering his mistress (Cole) is unfaithful. Hmmm depression and debauchery, how could he mess that up? He doesn't even have to act, he just needs to be himself. It
is his first attempt at acting, and, according to the reviews, it should
also be his last.
The Guardian labeled Doherty's acting as full of "shambling amateurisim", while Screen Daily said that Doherty delivers "a wooden performance" in "a turgid adaptation".
The Hollywood Reporter
was a little bit nicer, but only in that they chose to blame the film's
director Sylvie Verheyde rather than Doherty. They wrote of the former
Libertines singer: "It's hard to recall an actor looking more uncomfortable
on screen", but adds, "it was perhaps too much to expect a first-timer
to shoulder a demanding lead".The harshest of all were Cine Vue, they took no pity on the rockstar and called Doherty "a sixth former who hasn't learned his lines for drama class" and said he "joins a long line of successful musicians and pop stars who have become truly awful actors".
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