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Reviews Counted:72
Fresh:47
Rotten:25
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Though Broken English eventually settles into basic rom-com territory, it’s pleasant and good-natured, and Parker Posey is spellbinding throughout the movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Known mainly for playing quirkily comic characters, Parker Posey shows she can tackle a serious role just as skillfully in Zoe Cassevetes's moving film. BROKEN ENGLISH stars Posey as Nora Wilder, a... [More]
Starring: Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
[Director] Cassavetes shows genuine, even original, talent in the way she creates emotional connections between camera and character, via fluid movement and unhinged perspective. But the advantage of having Posey as her lead shouldn't be underestimated.
The filmmaking is forgettable, with an awkward script strewn with too many off-key notes.
Despite its schizophrenic nature and often disagreeable characteristics, Broken English has flashes of something. You might say it has an integrity of purpose, if not of execution.
A psychologically rich drama that presents an illuminating anatomy of the anguish of loneliness and the way it often gives a desperate edge to our search for love.
Casavetes tells her tale, but it's one we've already seen, and she doesn't bring much that's new or fresh to the narrative.
The tour of Manhattan and Paris is fun in a privileged Sex and the City way, but the wish-fulfillment content is awfully flimsy in this debut from writer-director Zoe Cassavetes.
The film devolves into stilted-foreigner scenarios and self-help platitudes.
Cassavetes keeps things interesting by maintaining a dry tone that almost passes for real wit and elicits some disarming performances from her attractive cast.
The quirky female friendship between the irresistible combo of Parker Posey and Drea de Matteo oddly upstages the designated romance in the movie.
It is that rare romantic comedy in which women can actually see themselves.
Basically a hipster's pastiche of every chick flick you've ever seen except with expert breeding, but it doesn't completely erase the feeling of déjà vu.
The film is little more than a foundation for Parker Posey's usual fine performance, as the story lacks wit and narrative drive.
It's only an average film, but that first half is a pip, and the whole thing is refreshingly simple and good-natured.
It's a rather typical Posey role, and yet somehow I never tire of seeing her in them.
What began as an interesting character study ends in convention, offering only the most clichéd platitudes in summation. You can't find true love until you love yourself? Hasn't Dr. Phil been telling us that for years?
Though there's little unfamiliar here, pic's tipping the scales more toward latent-depression drama and away from typical romcom situation gags (the humor here is more offhand) makes it seem truer to life than many similar exercises.
Top CriticThis crosscultural romance, an updated version of Hollywood's Three Coins in the Fountain and Summertime, has a more resonant subtext than text, examining societal and familial pressures on women; Parker Posey gives an impressively modulated performance.
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