this lifeless adaptation of a book by Laura Moriarty shifts its gauzy lens Stateside to tell the true-ish story of Jazz Age sensation Louise Brooks before she and her severe black bob would take Hollywood by storm
"The Chaperone" makes you want to see a major drama about Louise Brooks, but this movie is far from it; it's a small-scale movie, and no harm in that, but it's tidy and stagy in a fusty middlebrow way