A script with terminal shortcomings – wincingly winsome, ferally fey – is negotiated by brave actors picking their way through the minefield.
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02/22/08
My Blueberry Nights (2008)
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Reviews Counted:115
Fresh:56
Rotten:59
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Though well filmed, My Blueberry Nights is a mixed bag of dedicated performers working with thin material.
Theatrical Release:22-02-2008
Synopsis: With his first English-language film, beloved Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's touch loses none of the seductive luster and magic that made his Chinese films so popular. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS... [More]
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Natalie Portman
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Reviews for My Blueberry Nights
Visually his film looks stunning on a giant festival screen, but the links between characters and stories require large leaps of faith.
10/27/07
Top CriticAn awful banality invades; principally in the conversations between restaurant manager Law and his lovelorn customer, played by the singer Norah Jones. Law struggles to bring his nice-guy northerner to life.
02/22/08
Top CriticWong Kar Wai's American debut is as gorgeously filmed as you'd expect, but it's also surprisingly mopey and downbeat for a story about love.
02/11/08
Wong Kar Wei brings a first-timer's vision of America - the lurid neons and flashing subway trains are beautifully captured - but any emotional heart, largely thanks to Lawrence Block's dull script - remains resolutely unexplored.
02/22/08
Away from home, Wong is on far-from-vintage form. But he still speaks the seductive language of longing with tactile tenderness, and draws out a natural performance from Jones. Worth a look, if not quite one to fall for.
02/22/08
Stunning photography and Wong's formidable directing abilities cannot salvage this emotionally empty exercise in style.
02/22/08
Top CriticFor all its delicious moments, though, you can't help feeling there are a couple of ingredients missing from this frustratingly insubstantial confection.
02/19/08
Top CriticWong Kar Wai's English language debut is gorgeously shot, but it's let down by a tedious script, paper-thin characters and some dodgy performances.
02/21/08
Far from a disaster, but it does feel like a footnote. It’s difficult to see why the great director and very talented performers worked so hard to deliver such thin material.
02/22/08
Top CriticNarratives and places are secondary to the dreamy, bitter-sweet tone Wong is so keen to evoke, and with which, like a scent one might spray on too liberally, he saturates every scene.
02/22/08
Top CriticA symphony worth of bum notes.
02/22/08
Top CriticIll judged and swooning take on relationships and the US.
02/22/08
Top CriticAs someone who has an aversion to most contemporary romantic movies, Wong is a filmmaker whose lush romanticism makes me swoon.
04/18/08
Wong's beautiful frames, filled with windows, lights and colors and a dazzling array of sounds (from distant thunder to tinkling bracelets) establish his all-important mood
04/17/08
It may not be what you expect. But with Wong Kar-wai, it seldom is.
04/03/08
My Blueberry Nights captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images.
04/21/08
This is a kind of storytelling I love, about moments captured in time, about the sensuality of image, about the overwhelming emotional assault of loving and living.
04/17/08
mostly a success, though set apart from Wong's previous work in that it won't have people coming back over and over again
04/03/08
Right from the beginning, there's a discomforting sense of banality blanketing the film: the journey, the pie motif, the faith in "new beginnings."
04/04/08
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