Former British pop star Gary Shaller (Martin Freeman) is struggling with a mid-life crisis. He's writing jingles for his more successful former bandmate Paul (Simon Pegg) and in a troubled marriage with Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow). He starts having dreams about Anna (Penélope Cruz). He learns to connect more with his dreamgirl through lucid dreaming with the help of Mel (Danny DeVito).Jake Paltrow got a lot of friends and his daughter to do his film. His directing skills are not good enough to make this cinematic. Even his visual flourishes lack a sharpness in their execution. The writing is not much in terms of drama. It's an idea looking for intensity. This does have a great cast although it's hard to buy Freeman as a former pop star. It's not his looks as much as his Office persona. On the other hand, Cruz is easily a dreamgirl and cool chick. There is a way to intensify this concept and story but this is not it.

I was glued to the screen. Since I myself wrote a similar story a while ago (no copyright claims, just a pleasure to see similarly-thinking minds), I felt like I am in my own dream.The movie is much deeper though. This is a piece of art, and thank you, thank you, Paltrow people!Penelope Cruz plays two characters here, an imaginary one, and a real one; is not she great? Gwineth Paltrow, she's (as always) the most natural actress in this world. Please don't take this movie lightly, it's a serious one. The description says it's a comedy - to the extent that all our lives are comedy.

I am puzzled by how seldom do the directors feel the need to insert, to put up some cityscapes in their films—I mean, cityscapes without a direct function, without functionality, free, gratifying, for the sake of atmosphere and for balancing the narration. A purely descriptive and atmospheric insert—a big cinema of the urban, of the cityscapes, Dutch studies of atmosphere and brio. Shooting a movie should not mean exclusively filming an action, a series of events. A realist and disinterested exploration of the cityscape. The action, to call it so, needs to be balanced by moments of mere contemplation. The director must understand the note of a cityscape.Besides the other beauties,that the reviewers have mentioned,there are savory cityscapes in this film.

I didn't know anything about "The Good Night" when I turned it on...and I'm still not sure that I know what it was supposed to be about. Martin Freeman (of "The Office") plays Gary, a former pop star now in a pseudo-relationship with Dora (Gwyneth Paltrow). It looks as if his life is truly going nowhere, when he starts having fantasies featuring a strange woman (Penelope Cruz) who appears in advertisements. I think that that was the plot.I assume that the movie must be a look at Gary's being nearly at the end of his emotional rope, but I found it a little too weird to really follow. A movie dealing with this topic that I recommend is John G. Avildsen's "Save the Tiger", starring Jack Lemmon. Maybe I would have liked this one better had they elaborated on how Gary's experiences change his life - if at all - in the long run. Not terrible, but not one that I would recommend above all others.Also starring Danny DeVito and Michael Gambon.