My Blueberry Nights
Elizabeth (Norah Jones) is unhappy. Her boyfriend, whom she is really in love with, has cheated on her, which she discovers in a New York restaurant/café which belongs to Jeremy (Jude Law). Jeremy has also lost the love of his life, and feels for Elizabeth. She spends night after night at this place (where her ex took his new girlfriend to eat), eating blueberry pie. Why blueberry? Because at the end of every night, there is one whole blueberry pie left untouched.
She then decides that she needs change and gets on a bus to get away. For a whole year she travels around the US, meeting interesting people (such as Natalie Portman as a gambler chick). The entire time she writes postcards to Jeremy, without a return address. At some point she realizes that she has to go back to NYC.
I have heard and read a lot of bad reviews about Wong Kar Wai’s (or Kar Wai Wong in America) My Blueberry Nights. I really didn’t think this film was that bad. I actually thought it was quite cute. Norah Jones is a much better singer then she is an actress, but she is sweet and probably right for the role. Jude Law is charming as always but surprisingly down-to-earth as this NY waiter. Natalie really steals the show. She is absurdly dressed and made up to look like a trashy American girl with short bleached hair and impossible clothes.
It is not going to be my favourite film but there is really nothing wrong with it and if you happen to come across it I would almost recommend it to you.
(photo: flickr/looking4poetry)
Tags: Jude Law, Kar Wai Wong, My Blueberry Nights, Natalie Portman, Norah jones, Wong Kar Wai
