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...received a vision of what life has in store for him, and it worries him sick. He seems prematurely 40, so that any teen trauma has the impact of a midlife crisis or some awful dream endlessly repeating itself. As Nick O'Leary in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, he's the theoretically cool bass player in a band playing a Manhattan club. Except that the band is called the Jerk Offs, the other two members are gay, their audience includes blas members of Nick's New Jersey high school, and one of them is Tris (Alexis Dziena), the girl...
Given that Norah Jones has the lead in “My Blueberry Nights,” it’s not surprising that the movie opens with one of her songs, “The Story.” Jones plays Lizzie, a young woman who, after a bad break-up, takes off on a road trip to find herself and in the process meets a series of people whose stories are even more hopeless than her own. As the lyrics of the opening song suggest, “the stories have all been told before...
...Take the opening attraction, Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights. Much heralded as the Hong Kong master's first English-language feature, and starring pop diva Norah Jones in her acting debut, this fable of a lovelorn woman's jaunt across the U.S.-from New York to Memphis to Las Vegas and back again-lurches in and out of plausibility without ever quite weaving the slo-mo magic Wong brings to his homegrown fare. But then, just as the viewer's patience is being tried by the relentless despair Jones' character appears to live in, Natalie Portman shows...
CANNES, FRANCE Jude Law and Norah Jones light up film fete
...Jury that awards the Palme d'Or on closing night (a week from Sunday). And the Festival likes Wong enough to have chosen his new film, My Blueberry Nights, as the opening night film at a black-tie ceremony later this evening. He'll be there with his star, Norah Jones, the pop singer making her acting debut in his first American movie - a very mixed bag, with some fine scenes and characters to enliven a mostly disappointing endeavor...