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My Blueberry Nights

Hong Kong / China / France 2007

DIRECTOR

Kar Wai Wong

INTERPRETERS

Jude Law, Norah Jones, David Strathairn and Rachel Weisz

SCREENPLAY

Kar Wai Wong and Lawrence Block

"My Blueberry Nights" (bad title Italian for "My Blueberry Night") is a film by Wong Kar Wai. It is clear from the dialogue, voice over, almost violent comic-book colors, from the fact that people love each other almost without touching, slow sped up by those who have brought fame to the director of "Lost Angels". But "My Blueberry Nights" is also a film that wants to export the personal style of Wong Kar Wai in the West and does not have the courage to dare as perhaps had been a disappointing "2046." The story is always the same and a sense of deja vu is high when in another place is revived with the necessary variations to the second story of "Hong Kong Express". Except that there are no Chinese players, but far more enjoyable Jude Law and Norah Jones, but the director is able to make us interested in the story thanks to his famous dialogues in his eye and the inner film is never banal. So the first 50 minutes faster flee, every fan of the director will be exalted in the vision of a story as orchestrated masterpieces past Paul Auster in touch with the script, but then the disaster happens. It is because "My Blueberry Nights" becomes a meeting with Nathalie Portman obsessed with a video game expanded, a hymn surface aesthetics of beautiful images, like a porno without sex by Michael Ninn. Here's the story loses interest and forget about to get a likeness of Maggie Cheung by Raquel Weltz or another cop in love with anything like so many protagonists wongkarwaiani. The movie becomes a deadly tedium, irritating, snobbish, a vacuum to make a pathetic attempt to celebrate even a poetry with a certain weariness of interesting ideas. Too bad because the cast (except Portman) is perfect and after reading so many bad and foolish criticism of the film. We give three bullets anyway because it is a film that knows how to excite and offers a hybrid of the most interesting works of the period, but it is certain that by Wong Kar Wai film is expected to noiosetto discreet and not a simple task. The question, however, that if he was played by Tony Leng and Faye would not have had so many negative reviews, in fact, is very high. Racism in reverse?

Andrea Lanza