My Blueberry Nights (2008)
48 %
Reviews Counted: 103 Fresh: 49 Rotten:54 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
Though well filmed, My Blueberry Nights is a mixed bag of dedicated performers working with thin material.
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Theatrical Release: Apr 4, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $724,907
Synopsis: With his first English-language film, beloved Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's touch loses none of the seductive luster and magic that made his Chinese films so popular. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS follows the fortunes of Elizabeth (Norah Jones), who after having been left by her boyfriend, sets... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Screenwriter: Wong Kar-Wai, Lawrence Block
Producer: Wong Kar-Wai
Composer: Ry Cooder
Screenwriter: Wong Kar-Wai, Lawrence Block
Producer: Wong Kar-Wai
Composer: Ry Cooder
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Reviews
As visually lush and distinctive and enveloping as you would expect from a Wong Kar-wai film, with space for performances that have impact.
Comment
08/29/08
What the film ends up feeling like is someone else's clumsy attempt to imitate Kar-Wai's style while missing out on his obsessive perfection and emotional depth.
07/30/08
My Blueberry Nights proves Norah Jones isn't ready for a movie career quite yet.
07/08/08
It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece.
07/06/08
The story had promise but it ends up being half baked by a director who wants to show off that he went to film school.
06/08/08
My Blueberry Nights plays much like a dream; different vignettes fade into each other ... [but] nothing ever quite adds up.
06/04/08
Wong's Hong Kong efforts are steeped in romanticism, but here, something clearly got lost in translation.
05/28/08
My Blueberry Nights at any length doesn't begin to answer the question why Jones, who seems nice in a bland, girl next door way, would ever be tapped to star in a movie.
05/22/08
It's essentially a gloriously romantic film made by a very romantic filmmaker who can see beauty where none supposedly exists.
05/21/08
The ensemble drama has some modest charms, which includes a surprising, old-fashioned sweetness and interpretation of romance.
05/16/08
... dreamy, woozy, elliptical and gorgeously infused with orange-red light and smeary Matisse blues. It's visually beautiful and its open-ended narrative is loose and suggestive
05/16/08
It's sweet and mostly satisfying, like a silky dessert at the end of a relaxed meal.
05/13/08
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Top Critic
(Norah) Jones doesn't merely hold her own in a pouty screen debut of note; she looks comfortable and purrs with the confidence of someone who belongs.
05/02/08
It's not the pie that is meant to make this watchable, it is Wai's greatest gift, observing people, little slices of life in New York, Memphis or Nevada. Unfortunately in this case, those slices don't add up to a meal, or even dessert.
05/02/08
But it's not the English that seems to trip up the writer-director; it's the language. Wong's script, co-written with Lawrence Block, tosses out the filmmaker's genius for non-verbal characterization and replaces it with talk, talk, talk.
05/01/08
Less sensuous than the pie à la mode, more nuanced than the doors opening and closing, cutting the cards might not change any odds, but it does offer an illusion of choice.
04/30/08
...less than the sum of its parts, [but] some of those parts are wonderful.
04/28/08
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