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2004
Drama
1h 30m
The former successful forty-two years old rock star Lee Hauser is decadent and his friends blame his girlfriend Emily Wang for the fall in his career due to excessive use of drugs. Their son Jay is raised by his grandparents Albrecht Hauser and Rosemary Hauser in Vancouver. When Lee dies of overdose in a motel room, Emily is sentenced to six months in jail. She moves to Paris where she unsuccessfully struggles to keep clean. When she decides to retrieve the guard of he son, she is supported by her father-in-law and finds the necessary strength to rebuild her life. (imdb)

Directed by:

Olivier Assayas

Screenwriter:

Olivier Assayas

Starring:

Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Mary Moulds, Jeanne Balibar, Maggie Cheung, Don McKellar, Martha Henry, James Johnston, Tricky

Genre:

Drama

Countries:

Canada, France, UK

Languages:

English, French, Cantonese
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thedenizenTheDenizen
Rated 26 Sep 2007
60
40th
This is all about the performance from Maggie Cheung as a middle aged junkie, which is good, but not great.
Rated 26 Sep 2007
doyler29doyler29
Rated 10 Aug 2022
90
87th
I love this film. Most of the reason is Cheung, who turns in an astonishing, multi-lingual performance and brings to life a really subtly complex character. It's also the film's rather startlingly mature and unusual look at drug use and addiction, and the way it handles the Cheung/Nolte relationship as more of an uneasy attempt to build trust rather than a source of acrimony and conflict. It's a really unique and rewarding film.
Rated 10 Aug 2022
wetwillieswetwillies
Rated 26 May 2016
80
37th
Definitely my least favorite of the Assayas films I've seen so far. Not that it's bad, but it's decidedly uneven. I found Nolte's scruffy, lived-in performance compelling, and Maggie Cheung is terrific in scenes centered around her son and their relationship's accompanying emotional turmoil. However, every time the film tries to be about the music industry and/or drug-induced self-destruction, it feels inauthentic and starts to lose me.
Rated 26 May 2016
nepetaNepeta
Rated 20 Apr 2013
75
56th
About overcoming communication difficulties not by choice but by necessity. About taking the risk of leaving yourself open, a brave and difficult decision even if there are no other options available. Beautifully photographed and reasonably observant but let down by Maggie Cheung's middling performance. Still you can read Nick Nolte's emotions like a book, and all the better for that as that is precisely the kind of character he is playing.
Rated 20 Apr 2013
slantmagSlantMag
Rated 01 Dec 2010
25
61st
"At the center of the storm is one of the most focused, downright obsessive examples of cine-diva deification in recent memory." - Eric Henderson
Rated 01 Dec 2010
andaghandagh
Rated 13 May 2010
85
66th
Hamilton!
Rated 13 May 2010
shmendrekShmendrek
Rated 10 Jul 2007
3
61st
While there's comparatively little to recommend here, I'd like to briefly talk about one scene that hit me right in the gut. The protagonist purchases some stuffed animals for her once-abandoned child, lovingly places them on a bed and then stops to right a fallen animal. Big fucking deal, right? Yet, inexplicably, this obviously unscripted minor detail caused me to weep like a baby. Beats me.
Rated 10 Jul 2007
martintellerMartinTeller
Rated 04 Apr 2007
74
49th
Not as good as Irma Vep, another Assayas/Cheung collaboration. Oh, it's not bad... it's nicely understated for what is essentially a drug movie, shot well in cool blue tones, the characters and dialogue are believable, and the music is good. I cared what happened, even though I could pretty much tell what was going to happen. It's rather simple and doesn't leave much of an impression. I also got occasionally annoyed by the hip references.
Rated 04 Apr 2007
auritechauritech
Rated 15 Feb 2007
90
90th
Although some of its time-skipping and ambiguities in characterization are noticeable, this is an enthralling and immersive film that I could have kept watching for another hour.
Rated 15 Feb 2007

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