My Blueberry Nights

Viewer Rating:paulagalvin has rated My Blueberry Nights rating: 1 Star

My Blueberry Nights is the most dreary film I have seen in a long time.It has a great cast so you wonder how in the name of all that's good could the director,Kai Wai Wong,have got it so abysmally wrong.It is like an amateur version of a Tennessee Williams play,all tragic figures embroiled in a Greek-style tragedy. It painstakingly,tells the tale of Elizabeth,who has been thwarted in love and spends her days in a cafe,owned by Jude Law playing an annoyingly chirpy Manchunian(Gawd èlp us!!)He feeds her with ...yes,you've guessed it...blueberry pie.There are loads of close-ups of the blueberries mingling with ice-cream which are no doube meant to be artistic or symbolic but are merely annoying. Anyway..Elizabeth goes across the States,working in restaurants ,meeting unbelievably gloomy,mopey characters,David Stathairn plays a melancholic alcoholic whose lovely wife Rachel Weisz plays a gloomy doomy nymphomaniac. Elizabeth also encounters Natalie Portman playing a poker whizz. The storyline is so cliched,predictable and jaw-achingly boring but this is not the worst paro of the film.There are long,long momemts of grainy,out-of-focus,through shutters and blinds shots,like an Edward Hopper picture but without any purpose. This film is depressingly awful.

Review published on the 14 March 2008 10:24