The plot of Fifty Shades Freed, such as it is — and never has «such as it is» been meant with such
a deliberate arch of the eyebrow — relies upon both Christian's terrible childhood and Ana's promotion to fiction editor of an independent book publisher that Christian purchased while she was employed there as a jerk's personal assistant.
Dunst is playing it straight here, but there is enough
arch in Kidman's
eyebrow to signal that Coppola is having fun around the edges
of this Southern gothic, with its formal compositions and
deliberate pacing (as usual, a little too
deliberate for my taste).