"Anyway, as he flees this latest disaster, Mark valiantly stops to save a girl who's tripped and fallen under the stampeding feet. The girl's name is Sylvia, and she's played by Reese Witherspoon with equal portions of gamine bluster, little-girl vulnerability, bewitching carnality, and a sort of arid, postwar Gallic Maoist, protofeminist, chignon-wearing hauteur that easily falls away to reveal a kind of Squeaky Fromm-like, giggly, non-compos-mentis 'hey, whatever' insouciance in a performance that marks a stunning comeback from Ms. Witherspoon's disastrous turn as 'Tante Helke' in controversial Austrian director John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt's unwatchable S&M epic My Name Is Your Name Too."