My Blueberry Nights Reviews
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
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An average movie
Posted : 12 years, 2 months ago on 27 February 2012 10:48Following his tremendous critical success, like many other directors before him, Wong Kar Wai finally deciced to make the move to the USA. Unfortunately, even though the damned thing really had some potential, I'm afraid he delivered his least appealing movie so far. I mean, he definitely got a very a nice cast (Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman) and they all delivered some decent performances. Furthemore, his directing was, as usual, quite gorgeous but, unfortunately, the whole thing still didn't really impress me. Eventually, I think it had to do with the fact that this director has actually a rather artificial approach to direct his movies but, so far, most of them turned to be quite spellbinding to watch so it wasnโt really a big issue. Unfortunately, this time around, it didnโt work very well and it even became bordeline boring to watch. I donโt know, maybe it was because the English language don't fit well with his style or maybe it was because the story was actually rather weak. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I still loved the directing and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Wong Kar Wai's work.
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My Blueberry Nights review
Posted : 15 years, 3 months ago on 1 February 2009 06:50But well, there is always something good and in this case was the actors. Lovely actors.
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My Blueberry Nights review
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My Blueberry Nights review
Posted : 15 years, 8 months ago on 24 August 2008 06:07The themes of the movie are familiar, not just to viewers of his previous movies. It's all about love, loss and yearning. Jude Law plays a cafe owner in New York, Jeremy, who encounters Norah Jones' character, Elizabeth, the night she breaks up with her boyfriend. Their romance doesn't exactly bloom, it's a slow burn, one with a complex flavour and after-taste. I'm using food metaphors here, the movie takes it's title from Blueberry pie after all. There's great chemistry between the leads. Norah Jones is competent for the most part and Jude Law is very good. He's the heart of the movie, despite most of it being centered around the character of Elizabeth.
Elizabeth takes off to explore a world different from her current one, without letting Jeremy know. She keeps in touch by sending him a stream of postcards. The two sub-plots are set in Memphis and Las Vegas/Nevada. The Memphis story is weak and Rachel Weisz is terribly miscast. I almost lost hope for the movie there. The Vegas/Nevada story is set around a gambler, played by Natalie Portman, who has a tortured relationship with her dying father. Natalie Portman is completely convincing, even if Norah Jones is on slightly shaky ground in some scenes. After we're done with Elizabeth's journey, the story returns back to New York for it's conclusion.
The trouble with this movie (apart from the clunker in Memphis) is that everything feels like it's been covered in a WKW movie before, most significantly in 'Chungking Express'. It's not one of his masterworks that I've become used to expecting from him. Still, it's a satisfying movie and nobody, and I mean nobody, can do romance better than WKW, even if it's a little re-cycled.
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Not that pointless
Posted : 16 years, 1 month ago on 10 March 2008 08:280 comments, Reply to this entry
Very nice and quiet movie
Posted : 16 years, 3 months ago on 5 February 2008 10:30Beside of that, I pretty much enjoyed the movie. The performances of Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn are short but realy intense, the rest of the cast wasn't bad either, a great debut of Norah Jones as an actress.
I've just seen the trailer of the movie and I think it sugests a totaly different movie. The trailer only shows the background story, most of the time we follow Norah Jones's journey through the country meeting some interesting characters.
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