My Blueberry Nights

52

The Weinstein Company (90 minutes)
and Wong Kar Wai
Jude Law , Norah Jones , Natalie Portman , Rachel Weisz , and David Strathairn

Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material including violence, drinking and smoking

Summary: In Wong Kar Wai's debut English-language feature, the internationally acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across the distance between heartbreak and a new beginning. After a rough breakup, Elizabeth sets out on a trip across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream, and a soulful new friend, a cafe owner, all to search for something to mend her broken heart. Waitressing her way through the country, Elizabeth befriends others whose yearnings are greater than hers, including a troubled cop, his estranged wife, and a down-on-her luck gambler with a score to settle. Through these individuals, Elizabeth witnesses the true depths of loneliness and emptiness, and begins to understand that her own journey is part of a greater exploration within herself. (Weinstein Company)

Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
(83) Captures the overwhelming and uncontrollable emotional assault of loving and living through captured moments and sensuous images.

Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle:
(75) Wildly romantic.

Shawn Levy
Portland Oregonian:
(75) It's a stylish and sweet film with moments of affecting brilliance that counterbalance its flaws.

Ken Fox
TV Guide:
(75) Despite its flaws, the film has the same dreamy, romantic melancholy that distinguishes Wong's best films.

Scott Tobias
The Onion (A.V. Club):
(75) Wong's visions of a New York café, a Memphis bar, and a Vegas casino--not to mention the swaths of beautiful country in the Southwest--have that enveloping quality that make his films so persistently seductive. The natives should feel flattered.

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly:
(67) Norah Jones, making her big-screen debut as a wistful wanderer, is a beautiful blank, and the fragments barely add up to a movie.

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