Clean (2004)

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"Nick Nolte Nick Nolte has so little screen time in Olivier Assayas’s Clean (2004) that it could be relatively easy to overlook his subtle contribution to the film. There is no question that Maggie Cheung stole the show—a performance that won her a Best Actress Award at Cannes—but Nolte’s performance as the aging, forgiving patriarch, Albrecht Hauser is so smolderingly brilliant that he deserves at least as much praise as Cheung received to be sent his way. Nolte is part of that small cot"

Getting clean is not easy, or that interesting

“"Clean" is the story of a woman trying to get her life back after her husband-in-all-but-name dies of an overdose, and she serves time in a Canadian jail for possession. Nick Nolte plays her father-in-law, who is raising her son. I don't require the movies I watch to have the quickest of plots, and some meandering scenes can add flavor to a movie. But this movie was just a little too "arty" for me, and maybe a little too distant. I thought Maggie Cheung was mesmerizing, and if not for her I probably would have given up on the movie. Nick Nolte was okay, and and does a good job of looking haggard, but had such an odd cadence in his voice I found him irritating. I'm not sure what could have saved this movie (and I usually have some opinion), editing it down might leave out too much of” read more