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...about two hours south to New Haven, because you picked the wrong Ivy. As famous as the Square is for its ice cream, its pizza leaves much to be desired. There are, however, a few bearable places, and some of them would probably satisfy even the most die-hard Eli...
Sexual politics belong more to Blue and Eli than director Roth. To be fair, women aren't the only characters in Heartbrakers that get superficial treatment: everyone does, because the script is thin and the dialogue occasionally strained. But Roth is a very talented visual director, and once the characters have been introduced in the crupric first half hour, the atmosphere and psychological action are compelling...
Roth seemingly picks up his story in the middle, after the dynamics of most of these relationships have been established, and doesn't bother with exposition so we have no idea where all these unleashed passions are coming from. Cyd leaves Blue, Eli's father business is in trouble, Eli's father dies, Blue gets a gallery opening for his work. Blue kisses a strange woman on the street. Blue intrudes on Eli and a woman in bed so they decide to get a hamburger at Fatboy's, Eli burns Blue's shirt...
...MORI WI WATCH (there is little worth listening to) the more we know: Roth puts his audience in the voyeuristic position that Eli and Blue assume in each other's lives. As friends they feel entitled to the other's every though and their every woman Wealthy macho Eli envies Blue's mysterious romantic success with women, and struggling Blue envies Eli's material success. Eacl, lives vicariously through the other and so neither is fully satisfied with himself. This complicated mixture of love and jealously, hate and loyalty, repeatedly erupts in unspoken competition for the same women. Cinematographer Michael...
...performances are uniformly excellent. Peter Coyote as Blue is arrogant, self centered and outrageously charming; he mysteriously draws people to him like a whirlpool. Nick Maneuso's Eli handsome and well groomed enough to be a Ken doil, and he's just as dull lot awhile, but blanketed intensity and final indignation are all the mere effective in the end Heartbreakers is updated look at Nathanael West The Day of the "dream dump," modern day Los Angeles, those who state are all dissatisfied and spend she then days and might pretending they...