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The High Road.(My Blueberry Nights; 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)(Movie review)
Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker
With an all-star cast, Wong Kar Wai brings his romantic sensibility to the American road movie. John Powers reviews.
Few filmmakers have more imitators than Wong Kar Wai, whose images shimmer with romantic yearning. His work has never been swoonier than My Blueberry Nights, which stars singer Norah Jones as Elizabeth, a jilted New Yorker who hits the American highway looking to forget. In Memphis, she befriends a cop (David Strathairn) tormented by his wayward wife (Rachel Weisz). Out West, she starts traveling with a rootin'-tootin' poker player (Natalie Portman) who's as flamboyant as Elizabeth is watchful. But she can't stop thinking about her potential soul mate (Jude Law), the owner of a downtown diner who listened to her story of heartbreak.
My Blueberry Nights is the Hong Kong director's first film in English, and its premiere screening at Cannes showed him struggling with the new language. But Wong routinely reworks his movies, and this enjoyable new version is vastly improved. Some parts ring false: Weisz and Strathairn's story is ersatz Tennessee Williams, and Jones never seems fully comfortable on-screen. But Wong brings out ...
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