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Ok so looking at the cover, it says "Romantic Comedy" which makes me have all sorts of thoughts about bad Meg Ryan films (You've Got Mail needs to DIE) and then the description made me think, 'oh single girl looking for love in the big city, meeting only jerks...seen it'. Nonetheless, I was bored and I love Parker Posey, so I gave it a shot. And it's not perfect by any means, but nonetheless I really enjoyed it and found myself thinking about it afterwards, which is usually how I judge a movie to be good.
Plot is as follows, Parker Posey is a 30-something single chick in NY and she is looking for love. She has a decent, if boring, job, friends, family, nice clothes. That's how it starts out. But what gets you is how quietly they start showing the toll her life is really having on her health--emotional and physical. Her job, her life, they are all not what she expected. And her friends and family, who do love her, are busy with their own lives at the same time. She's just unhappy in general and focusing on a vague need to get married, on what she's supposed to be. She concentrates a lot on what she's supposed to be doing.
But she is genuinely lonely. Enter a slightly younger Frenchman. And yeah, a Frenchman, cliche right? Only it works because he's weirdly adorable and because when her reaction to him is almost frightened. Realistically, because she's afraid to trust anymore, to relax. She's so afraid and he persists in his weird (French) way and they are awkward and kind of sexy and so uncertain. (It gets to the point where she has a panic attack in front of him and her embarrassment/pain at that are just so *real*. And yes, I was picturing that bathtub scene with Rene and James).
Anyway, of course there are complications and Things That Must Be Resolved in her life in order for her to find happiness. Those you see when you watch it.
Sidenote: It was directed and I think written by Zoe Cassavetes, John Cassavetes' daughter. Her mom, Gena Rowlands is also in it. Yay for women directors.
Plot is as follows, Parker Posey is a 30-something single chick in NY and she is looking for love. She has a decent, if boring, job, friends, family, nice clothes. That's how it starts out. But what gets you is how quietly they start showing the toll her life is really having on her health--emotional and physical. Her job, her life, they are all not what she expected. And her friends and family, who do love her, are busy with their own lives at the same time. She's just unhappy in general and focusing on a vague need to get married, on what she's supposed to be. She concentrates a lot on what she's supposed to be doing.
But she is genuinely lonely. Enter a slightly younger Frenchman. And yeah, a Frenchman, cliche right? Only it works because he's weirdly adorable and because when her reaction to him is almost frightened. Realistically, because she's afraid to trust anymore, to relax. She's so afraid and he persists in his weird (French) way and they are awkward and kind of sexy and so uncertain. (It gets to the point where she has a panic attack in front of him and her embarrassment/pain at that are just so *real*. And yes, I was picturing that bathtub scene with Rene and James).
Anyway, of course there are complications and Things That Must Be Resolved in her life in order for her to find happiness. Those you see when you watch it.
Sidenote: It was directed and I think written by Zoe Cassavetes, John Cassavetes' daughter. Her mom, Gena Rowlands is also in it. Yay for women directors.
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Out on DVD yeah.