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Time Out says
Pitched somewhere between Papa John’s excoriating character studies and the commercial flotsam of her brother Nick (Alpha Dog),
Zoe Cassavetes’s directorial debut follows a woman (Posey) under the
influence of paralyzing loneliness. After sleeping with a self-absorbed
movie star and having a blind date turn into a dead end, she
momentarily entertains moving to Paris with the impossibly hot and
blissfully uncomplicated French dude (Poupaud) who worships her…only
that would mean she’d actually have to make a choice. What to do? The
perpetual indecision doesn’t start and stop with the heroine, however;
the movie never makes up its mind whether it’s going to be a
left-of-center indie comedy for the Oxygen-channel set or a Sex and the City episode just edgy enough for Sundancers.The fence-straddling would be fatal if it weren’t for Posey, who takes
what’s essentially a character sketch and turns it into a
three-dimensional mess in a dress. She’s the kind of actor who could
make a nursery rhyme seem nerve-janglingly neurotic, and her brittle
readings give the film a much-needed emotional grounding. Listening to
the way Posey makes the exclamation “Barf!” a barometer of wounded
cynicism, you almost don’t mind suffering through plot contrivances
like lost phone numbers and empowering transatlantic jaunts.
Details
Release details
Release date:
Friday June 22 2007
Duration:
97 mins