1.   Anyone who is working on a period movie eventually comes through the doors of Palace Costumes, says manager Pony Pratt.

2.   Now, DiCaprio may be the perfect young fellow to play a modern leading manchild, but he is simply a joke in period movies.

3.   The dialogue, as in most period movies, can be somewhat convoluted and confusing.

4.   His performance is a letdown in view of his previous performance in Dangerous Liaisons, another period movie set in France.

5.   The above scene is not from a period movie.

6.   The tendency in period movies like this is to write stilted dialogue.