Jolie's By the Sea flawed but ambitious

How do we picture the private lives of Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt? If they were to, say, wind along the Mediterranean coast in a top-down convertible with Serge Gainsbourg lilting on the radio, would that do the trick?

In the opening of By the Sea, written and directed by Jolie Pitt, they are the picture of glamour we would expect from the stars, playing a married couple who breeze into a remote seaside cove in the South of France. The spell, however, is broken when they reach the water.

"I smell fish," says Jolie Pitt's Vanessa, stepping out of the car.