My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights
PG-13 | 04 April 2008 (USA)
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Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

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sLnThePerFecT

Minor Spoilers Ahead!I just finished watching this one but i have to say i am a little disappointed. But before that, let me just say i really wanted to enjoy this movie, i honestly did but it just didn't happen. I love blueberry so first time i saw the title and checked out the trailer, i said to myself 'this is going to be my favorite movie!' But here i was, 30 minutes in and trying to find a good thing to hold on to in the move that will get me through the end but all i could gather was Jude Law's character, Jeremy. He was my favorite. His accent was amazingly lovely and his character was so nice and romantic and waiting and just lovely... It even made me forget about how bad Norah Jones's acting was. But didn't see him as much as the viewer would like to and i think that was the biggest let down of the film. Natalie Portman was amazing but her character didn't get a chance to glow because her time was so limited and without a backstory it just felt flat. Rachel Weisz, she was so gorgeous and her character wanted to be alive so much but still so little time and with so little info, even she couldn't help the character to become a 'someone'. The actors and actresses were great (minus Norah Jones but she did her best and it's not her fault that she doesn't have talent in the acting front) but the dialogues were so dead and the camera work was awful. The editing was so of the charts that i think sometimes they just put cut scenes that doesn't even makes sense into the movie just to make it seem like it's full, you know. Anyways, i am not saying that this movie is an 'avoid at all costs' but it's not 'a must see' either. You can open it as a background noise on a mellow night while you are eating take outs. It's that kind of a movie, that's all. 5/10

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Pierre Radulescu

She comes every night to a small café in SoHo, looking for solace after a break-up. He runs the place and knows how to listen words and silences. Between them a blueberry pie that works wonders. He falls for her, she needs firstly to come to her own terms. So she leaves New York for a journey coast to coast, working as a waitress in different towns and knowing various people with their stories. In a pub in Memphis a long time botched couple, ending miserably. The survivor will have a ghost to carry. In a casino some place in Nevada an embittered gambler, hiding another ghost. Everybody seems to be there either a skeleton or a zombie, with a skeleton in charge.One day she will return to the café in SoHo. Life can also be nice.It's My Blueberry Nights, made by Wong Kar-Wai in 2007. She is Norah Jones, at her first movie role. He is Jude Law. The couple in Memphis is played by David Strathairn and Rachel Weisz. The Nevada gambler is Natalie Portman. It is the first movie Wong Kar-Wai made in America, with an American cast, also the first time he did not collaborate with Chris Doyle. Here the Director of Photography was Darius Khondji, "the lonesome lens man who made Pollack, Allen, Fincher, Boyle, Polanski, and Bertolucci look so fine" (I'm quoting here Richard Sleboe).It's Wong Kar-Way, so first thought goes to Chungking Express: neon colors generously flooding the place, great dreamy shots bathed in music and making the universe look psychedelic (which it probably is, why not?), the small coffee shop where passed loves are cured and new loves look so promising, young sweet heroes whose lives are flooded with sweet crazy details (the café in SoHo carries a Russian name - КЛЮЧ - as a former flame in the life of the young man was a superb Russian, Katya; also КЛЮЧ is the Russian for KEY, which sends to the glass full of keys on the countertop - keys of passed loves waiting to be taken back or thrown away; the postcards sent every day by the young girl from every town on her journey, without giving any clue about her actual address). English spoken with all kind of accents (Mancunian, Muscovite, Tennessean), whirled together. And above all the blueberry pie.Don't forget that the young heroine is a waitress in both My Blueberry Nights and Chungking Express. And don't forget the cop in both movies.So it calls in mind Chungking Express, which is a masterpiece. The problem is that nobody cannot create the same masterpiece twice, not even Wong Kar-Wai. Understandably many reviewers were slightly disappointed, some even very critical.It is true that you find here the same cinematic language as in Chungking Express, only we should observe that a movie is not only about cinematic language.Chungking Express has a formidable sense of immediacy, it's a spontaneous flow: slices of life not ordered by some logic, evolving on their own with no predictability. The two stories in the movie end with no resolution; just a moment in life chosen by random.Here in My Blueberry Night the evolution is predictable. We are following a story with a start and an end and we are waiting the heroine to come back one day to New York and to commence her new love.And the first feeling is that's not Wong Kar-Wai. Said one reviewer, it's Wong Kar-Wai lite.Imho these critics miss an important point: Wong Kar-Wai created not only Chungking Express; In the Mood for Love is another great movie and it is quite different.Actually I would think now at another work of Wong Kar-Wai, the segment he created for the movie Eros: the segment is named The Hand and it's a small gem. It's a poignant description of a tragic destiny, a description flooded with an intoxicating erotic desire, told with a minimalism that's simply exquisite.What seems to me is that there are two roads in the work of Wong Kar-Wai (let's say the one in Chungking Express and the other in In the Mood for Love - or in The Hand) and here in My Blueberry Nights he wants to put them together. If the whole sends us to Chungking Express, the two episodes in Memphis and Nevada send directly to the poignancy of In the Mood for Love and The Hand. Someone observed once that some movies of Almodovar could be viewed as a cathedral and its chapels (well, the observations continued that the cathedral was Kitsch and its chapels Gothic). Here in My Blueberry Nights the romance of the two sympathetic lead characters is the cathedral hosting the two episodes. I would say, the romance is Wong Kar-Wai-lite because it's just a pretext: the Gothic stays in the episodes.Each of the two episodes, in Memphis and Nevada, is amazing: each one has the essentiality of a morality tale. It's the tragedy of the couple: the love has disappeared you don't know when, you hate the other, you hate yourself, you cannot escape. You carry the ghost of the other whatever you try, wherever you go, regardless the other is alive or dead. You are a ghost.And David Strathairn, as well as Rachel Weisz, as well as Natalia Portman, play amazingly.

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hydebee-2

if you are here on IMDb, you will notice that most really bad movies have a high rating, such is the case for this piece of crap.in reality there is less than 1 of 6 movies that rate 4 stars , but here on IMDb it is more like 5 of 6 movies are 4 stars, so you begin to see that the people who tend to write reviews like the movies , my reviews are written from a neutral view, so with that said here we go my review of "my blueberry nights".Norah Jones is singer writer ,lets hope she stays that, i do not know if it was the material she had to work with or the ideal of the director to make a singer a star, but this movie sucks -plain and simple, it appeals mainly to women. the whole ideal of blue berry pie being orgasmic. i have sit thru some really bad female movies(eat-pray -puke)but blueberry nights is the worst, to me personally this is the worst movie of all time, it literally made me sick to my stomach , i wanted to get up and leave,Norah is the main character who leaves her boy friend Jude law , he makes really great blueberry pies , she takes off on a road trip no it is not a funny ,enjoyable road trip but a very dark trip filled with sickos , and very stereo-typed jazz joints as the ones in Memphis,on her journey she goes thru Memphis-neworlens-and Vegas to mention a few she meets a crazy cop,his even crazier wife, and then a crazy gambler played by Natalie portman,i don't know who would bankroll this crap but someone did and in my honest opinion this may be worst movie of all time, it reminds me of being held a captive in a nightmare, the funny thing is it had Jude law and Natalie portman in it, i am a Jude law fan,but i guess this shows anyone can be bought for money .miss Jones you need to stick to singing.and BTW if you are offered blueberry pie turn it down for chocolate cake.

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Rodrigo Amaro

Singer Norah Jones plays a young woman who takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. One of them is Jeremy (Jude Law) the owner of a coffee-shop whose Blueberry pies are the only one left out untouched (according to him no one likes it). She and Jeremy has some conversations about destiny, love and some left keys in the place and the story behind those keys. Wong Kar-Wai's film is a very unsatisfying work that drags the viewer into countless slow paced scenes, and a ridiculous cinematography that mixed slow motion with blurry effects. The conversations at night between Norah and Law was great, it was the greatest achievement of the film, but the excessive use of intern scenes was tiresome, we never know if a day passed by between these encounters, she just enters and enters again. The supporting roles performed by Natalie Portman, David Strathairn and Rachel Weisz sometimes were good, other times were irritating. I mean, this story was too forced. A woman's cross in the path of many different characters trying to see life in another way. And then what? What can we possibly learn here? The simplicity of acts, and the actions of the characters didn't embrace me, didn't move me at all. And the whole lesson given by Portman's character of never trust everyone was good (she's a gambler who makes a great offer to Jones and then everything went wrong and she lost Jones money). With this lesson in mind I didn't trust this movie, neither trust that the director of the great "Happy Together" made such a weak film. My question is: Kar-Wai was being real here in making this film, did he really show his feelings about love or it was a too much cinematic film, trying to be an artist? Oh, about the blueberry subject about everybody hating it, I wish I could understand this pointless reference. Is it really that bad? I never ate one but that's another story. It's a sad vacuum in terms of story and direction, although the performances were quite good. 4/10

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