The sky is blue. And in other News of the Obvious, the modeling industry is shallow, and fame is a fleeting phenomenon.

That's the point Denys Arcand beats into your brain with a sledgehammer in "Stardom," the story of a Canadian girl's meteoric rise to celebrity and her just as sudden descent.
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Montreal filmmaker Denys Arcand has already generated some nasty feedback from critics and fans who want his supermodel satire Stardom to be rougher and tougher.

Maybe they are missing the point. The movie, which uses mock documentary and TV clips to tell its story of fame gained and lost, is deliberately light and frothy, like a whipped dessert. It may not be filling but it's still tasty.
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