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Plot:
After a rough break-up, Elizabeth sets out on a journey across America, leaving behind her life in search of something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, she befriends...( read more 
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MCT:August 28, 2008I really appreciated the performances by Rachel Weisz and David Strathairn. Over all it had a good yet cliche plot line. I'm not really that into woman-strength movies, but this one kinda had that "get over it and stop pitying yourself" feel to it so it was okay... Pretty weird in the editing side of it, it was very artsy, and the reoccuring songs got a little old, but it was a soothing movie to see before bed.
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MCT:August 25, 2008
Probably a stylish movie that fails a bit on DVD - the acting not too bad, but somehow the movie did not touch me as much as I expected, given the cast.
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MCT:August 25, 2008I thought I wanted to see this, but the odd casting of Jude law & Natalie Portman sort of turned this movie from quirky-cute, to just bizarre.
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MCT:August 23, 2008
An okay movie that has some decent music, a few interesting characters and some terrific performances from some of its cast but Norah Jones's performance is lacking as is her chemistry with Jude Law.
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MCT:August 22, 2008
natalie portman and jude laww were the best things about this movie, and i never like jude laww. ever.
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MCT:August 20, 2008There's a chance that if i were to give this movie a second chance that i might like it better, but i doubt that is going to happen
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MCT:August 20, 2008
Kar Wai Wong's first English feature is a beautifully shot, and beautifully rendered tale of a girl searching for herself, and the people she meets in the process.
Is it perfect? No, I thought Norah Jones was strongly miscast and a few slo-mo shots lingered for way to long, but despite it's flaws ,MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS is a warm and sincere film worthy of attention... offering an experience as sweet as it's title. -
MCT:August 18, 2008
I'm not entirely sure what I think of this film... there were things I liked, and things I didn't, but I understood what they were trying to do, and am not sure they accomplished it... After suffering a bad break up (that we get to know nothing about) Elizabeth spends some meaningful nights eating Blueberry Pie with bartender/owner Jeremy. She splits out of town before we're sure what their relationship really is or could be, or what either of their pasts are really all about (his is even more vague). With her bad breakup and the series of characters we meet, we get one of the themes of the movie: how do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine your life without? It's an interesting message... but would it be more interesting if we actually had a chance to KNOW these people that have to say goodbye? Alcoholic cop kills himself and separated wife is sad.... but we only ever saw two interactions in the bar with them. Who should we really feel sorry for here? The film did a great job at getting to the emotions and getting you to connect to the characters based on the fact that they are human and have powerful emotions.... I can't decide how well that works when you don't really know the characters. Then there's the liar/gambler Natalie Portman plays who loses her father. Touching, but partly due to Portman's wonderful portrayal of emotions. She also had one of the more defined characters, though there wasn't anything inherently compelling about her character. All along then Jeremy is remember by the auudience as Elizabeth sends him postcards updating him on her life. He, in the meantime, has fallen madly in love with her. We see very few scenes with him aside from the beginning and end of the film. Nevertheless, I was pulling for them to end up together. However, if it had been played by a no-name actor I may not have felt that way. Jude Law brought Jeremy to life and, despite his complete lack of backstory, I was immediately in love with him as was Elizabeth. But, this was mostly due to the fact that it was Jude Law, not that he had some overly compelling character. All in all, the film did a great job at showing us raw human emotions and moving our emotions. I just think it could have been more effective in a 150 minute film rather than a 90 minute film. But, maybe that was the point - not to know too much about the characters... just to respond to the humanity of it all. (8-17-08)
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MCT:August 16, 2008
This movie isn't bad, it's just that I expected a lot more. Pictures, music and acting are not better than average.
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MCT:August 16, 2008
Recommended if you like art film. Beautifully written, interesting characters, and stunning cinematography. Not so much about standard Hollywood plot structure.
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MCT:August 13, 2008
Don't like the slow motion shots, they look bad, and you can tell it was in post. It is no where as good as 2046. Though Jones is a good actress.
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MCT:August 11, 2008
One of the prettiest scripts ever written, about a girl who embarks on a journey to mend her broken heart, the lives she touches along the way and the blueberry pie that saves her soul. Great cast!
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MCT:August 10, 2008
This was another offbeat, artsy kind of film, that I was unsure of at first. I was immediately taken by the way the movie was shot. It was presented in a very unique style, which I enjoyed.
The story itself was simple, yet thoughtful, an well played out. I really enjoyed the performances that Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, and especially Natalie Portman gave, but I wasn't sure about Norah Jones. Granted, she's a singer, not an actress, but though she looked gorgeous, she didn't stack up to the rest of the cast.
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MCT:August 10, 2008
Though rambling and pretentious, the supporting performances are uniformly good. The only performance that I had trouble with is Norah Jones. Considering she's a singer and isn't really a trained actor it stands to reason that she would seem amateurish in the movie. The plot is thin in the movie. It consists of Norah Jones's character encountering someone, inadvertently entering their lives somehow and then moving on. The movie is well filmed, but something oddly seems lost in translation regarding Wong Kar-wai's first English language film.
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MCT:August 5, 2008
a tragedy in the use of glassy layering. doyle and wong love that shot, but in this film the textures are just tired, mostly because i care for none of the characters.
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MCT:August 4, 2008
The performances are worth enough to keep you watching even when the central character isn't as interesting as the colorful character in her surroundings. Also, very beautifully lit movie.
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MCT:August 3, 2008
Almost perfect except for some reasons: Jones' too obvious debutante performance and Jude Law's character.
I'm not sure though whether WKW deliberately gave this role to Jones as he thought any amateur will be able to perform as an observer. Well, in this movie, Jones' character is no more than an observer where the true characters starred in the movie were Portman, Weisz, and Strathairn (which gave a very good performance). I'm not saying Norah Jones can't act, I'll say let's give her a few more chance to prove it. I don't know why, but I'm pretty sure her second appearance in a movie will be much better and able to be classified as good.
Anyhow, regardless of the fact that Jude Law still is the prettiest guy to my eyes, his character in this movie is the one I found the most irritating to the plot. Try to eliminate his character as a cafe owner with british accent who keeps his customer's keys out of sentimental reason, voila, you still got the whole plot undisturbed. -
MCT:July 30, 2008Great movie by Wong Kar-Wai!! An interesting story that follows Elizabeth (played by phenomenal singer Norah Jones) who had just gotten out of a bad relationship, and has now been dealing with her broken heart. She decides to make changes in her life, and it leads her through various parts of America and meeting other interesting people who are also going through their own hardships and break-ups. Great cast- David Strathairn, Natalie Portman, and Rachel Weisz. Great music!! Definitely worth seeing.
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MCT:July 27, 2008
I found it to be a little strange. The mood in this movie was just weird. And I didn't feel like I knew Norah Jones' character any better at the end than I did in the beginning. Interesting plot. And Natalie Portman was brilliant in her brief screentime.
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MCT:July 25, 2008i absolutely loved the first shot in the film and loved all the subway and desert shots. i enjoyed most performances, david straithairn, jude law (who is still charming) and chan marshall (who looked gorgeous!), but i thought natalie portman was the real bright spot of the film (though her hair was terrifyingly distracting). norah jones on the other hand was incredibly awkward, i would have perferred a smiling, but mute carboard cutout to her strange acting. also, while i enjoy cat power's music i didn't think it- or any of the music used for that matter fit well. overall, it is a good movie, but i defnitely wouldn't recommend this as a starting point for those interested in wong kar-wai films; to weigh this against his previous works would be folly.
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MCT:July 23, 2008With such a good cast I expected a good movie. This is really a lot of self indulgent tripe and will only appeal to the very artsy croud. Exceptionally dull storyline and to be honest you never felt for any of the characters. Norah Jones should stick to singing.
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alanjayhposted 70 days ago -
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I'm so scared of this film...I'm so so extremely frightened that this might turn out to be crap. Pleeeeaaaase Kar-Wai, don't let me down with your stupid american actors. Pleeaassee...
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This should be brilliant.
Wong Kar-Wai is a genious and I really cannot wait for this movie to come out.posted 527 days ago
