My blueberry nights

Category: Drama  |  Tags: drama

posted by: Roger 67 days ago          

My Blueberry Nights stars singer Norah Jones as Elizabeth, a waitress who, after her latest break-up, spends a night at a New York street café getting chatted up by Jude Law before embarking on a cross country road trip, trying to earn enough money to buy her own car.

Her quest leads her through Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai’s night-time world of New Orleans blues bars and Las Vegas casinos, where she encounters a number of addicts and down-and-outs.

There is Jason Strathairn, a drunken cop teetering close to the edge of total self-destruction, his 'less than faithful' ex-wife Rachel Weiss and an enigmatic professional gambler, played by Natalie Portman.

Sadly, though Elizabeth keeps moving, she doesn’t really go anywhere. Not Elizabeth the character or the singer-turned-actress, Jones.

The film is undemanding, unmemorable, and almost desperately insubstantial fare, but it has a kind of beauty that charms the viewer in spite of its faults.

With some good performances and a lot of mood, the movie turns out to be more than just an expertly made, 93-minute music video featuring Norah Jones looking frail and depressed. But not much more.