It was supposed to be her breakthrough as a filmmaker, but Nicola Peltz Beckham’s “Lola” is currently receiving some devastating reviews. “Nicola Peltz Beckham, the daughter of a billionaire, has made a film about abject poverty. It’s as bad as you think,” headlines the British Guardian, for example.
In “Lola,” Peltz Beckham (also the film’s writer and director) plays the 19-year-old heroine Lola, who wants to earn enough money to save her little brother from their toxic parents. Peltz Beckham wants to give an insight into the everyday life of a young person who has hardly any means but many dreams. Quite a few critics see comic irony behind this. “Nicola Peltz Beckham, daughter of Disney investor and billionaire Nelson Peltz and daughter-in-law of power couple David and Victoria Beckham, lives in such a high tax bracket that the successes and failures of her career are almost irrelevant,” writes the Guardian.
According to journalist Kady Ruth Ashcroft, who wrote the review in The Guardian, Peltz Beckham’s “Lola” is nothing more than “poverty porn, and that means the film exploits the conditions of poverty for entertainment and artistic recognition.” In another review on “In Review Online”, author Ayeen Foootan calls the film “poorly written” and the story “cliched melodramatic”. The 29-year-old’s directorial debut was also not well received on social networks.
“What’s worse than a nepo baby who can’t act? A nepo baby making a movie about being poor,” said a comment on Peltz Beckham’s Instagram profile. “Nepo babies” are children of famous parents who are only in the spotlight thanks to their family’s privileges. “The film just shows how vain and self-obsessed Nicola is because half of the film is just close-ups of her plumped-up and heavily made-up face,” said another user on Instagram.
Peltz Beckham is not alone with negative criticism and the accusation of being nothing more than a Nepo baby. Because her husband, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, of all people, has had to endure a lot of ridicule in the past. His photo book “What I See” received a hail of criticism in 2017. The accusation goes that the pictures that David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son published were not very meaningful. He only has a photo book because he is “son of”. When Brooklyn published more cooking videos in recent years, he became a laughingstock again – his recipes were too simple and his talent too expandable.
Peltz Beckham was aware that the aspiring filmmaker would be criticized, as she emphasized to “WWD”. It is also clear to her that, as the daughter of a billionaire, she knows nothing about poverty. “I wanted to write a story from a person’s perspective and a different point of view that wasn’t my personal perspective and wasn’t my upbringing. I’m an actress and my dream is to look at the world from different perspectives,” said Peltz Beckham.
Sources: “Guardian” / “In Review Online” / “WWD” / Instagram
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