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- 2008
- PG-13
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 35 m
- 2008
- PG-13
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 35 m
Summary After a rough breakup, Elizabeth (Norah Jones) sets out on a trip across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream, and a soulful new friend, a cafe owner, all to search for something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a ...
Directed By: Kar-Wai Wong
Written By: Lawrence Block, Kar-Wai Wong
- 2008
- PG-13
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 35 m
- 2008
- PG-13
- The Weinstein Company
- 1 h 35 m
My Blueberry Nights
51
6.7
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Summary After a rough breakup, Elizabeth (Norah Jones) sets out on a trip across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream, and a soulful new friend, a cafe owner, all to search for something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a ...
Directed By: Kar-Wai Wong
Written By: Lawrence Block, Kar-Wai Wong
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
51
29% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
64% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
51
29% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
64% Mixed
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
7% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images.
Norah Jones, making her big-screen debut as a wistful wanderer, is a beautiful blank, and the fragments barely add up to a movie.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 52 User Ratings
6.7
56% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
40% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 52 User Ratings
6.7
56% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
40% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
First off, this is a very stylishly filmed film. It features lots of bright, vibrant (almost neon type, in perhaps a slightly Vegas-y type way) colours and some scenes feature what appears to be freeze-framed, quirky camerawork. It has a bit of a dreamlike feel to it. The characters are curious, although quite what's going on isn't made especially clear at the start. I also liked the music played in the background. It is relatively little in the way of dialogue present - it has quite an arty type feel to it. I suppose the main character, Elizabeth, maybe isn't entirely likeable but I didn't feel that was a big put off as such. The plot is a bit hard to follow I suppose. It has a slight road trip/Thelma & Louise feel to it too, I'd say. Oh and also, it's the kind of film that may be worth multiple viewings but I reckon it's good in it's own way, either way.
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In the first couple of scenes, my optics were shocked by WKW trademarks, flagrantly thrown before my face. This is, and I hate to say it, Wong Kar-wai at his most immature, trying to enthrall the audience who are first introduced to his cinema in his English feature debut with his sensual and lustrous visuals as if they were, in themselves, what made him the idiosyncratic and influential filmmaker he is. Lost love and faded dreams are, more or less, the essential themes that reverberate through each of his art pieces. Yet, the doubt he's treading familiar ground over and over again has never crossed my mind when I see his characters amidst their feelings of longing, indulging in pain. Sadly, I felt that here, the thing that forced me to judge this film outside the canon of "WKW Cinema." For the first time, it sounds that he exposes some sort of lack of confidence, as if he deals with his freewheeling, near-plotless and episodic nature of his films as flaws that need to be sorted out by bashfully concealing them in the midst of the superfluous use of step-printing alongside the charm of hollywood actors starring this film. But, and as the movie obliterated any chance it would be judged within the canon of "WKW Cinema," I have to say that My Blueberry Nights is an irresistibly delectable treat with a fairly tasteful romantic flavour enough to mellow my heart and no shortage of cherries on the top served by the appeal and the charisma of the cast.
(6.5/10)
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Every shot is painstakingly thought out, but less emphasis is placed on the human face than on the surfaces that reflect it and the objects that obscure it, and the overall effect is close to that of fetish art.
Isn’t eye candy; it’s a drool-worthy slice of eye pie.
A stunner of a movie. But all those gorgeous images never add up to a full picture.
The disappointment here doesn't have much to do with Wong doing America--he's been doing America for years, even in Chinese--but with Wong doing Wong, and not up to his own standard.
Fractured, tentative, oh-so-artsy and very much in the style of Wong's previous Hong Kong-set boy-meets-girl movies. But this time, the effect is contrived: a star-driven pseudo-indie affair that will please neither celebrity worshipers nor cineastes.
No moviemaker is infallible, that's for sure, but even for things to go wrong for them there are levels. However, beyond how incoherent its plot seems at times, what I can't understand is how Wong Kar-wai accepted Norah Jones as the lead actress. In a story where she shares the screen with actors like Jude Law David Strathairn Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman, she is the weakest link, and this happens in all her scenes, and that is why this turns out to be incredibly undermining for his film, because she clearly didn't have the range to lead this project. What I can say in short accounts is that both because of its director and because the story has some plot allure, My Blueberry Nights deserves to be seen, but honestly this is the most disappointing work I've seen from this excellent filmmaker.
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Putain ! tout le film se passe dans un bistrot avec une bande de cons en train de manger des gâteaux et dans le lot, des chialeuses et des pleurnichards qui racontent de la merde, c'est-à-dire leur vie sentimentale pitoyablement dérisoire avec laquelle on ne voudrait même pas se torcher le cul. J'aime pas Norah trucmuche la geignarde qui essaye de faire l'actrice alors qu'elle sait déjà pas couiner proprement ses chansonnettes à deux balles qui te filent la migraine. Quelle daube !
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Production Company
Block 2 Pictures,
StudioCanal,
Jet Tone Films (Xiangshan),
Shanghai Film Group,
Lou Yi Ltd.
Release Date Apr 4, 2008
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without?
Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
