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...relationship that develops between Frankie and Ulysses, her robot dreamboat, is pleasant but conventionally screwball. This seems rather dismaying, considering that Director Seidelman showed such a fresh eye and so much wayward comic originality in 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan...
Heir presumptive to Jean--Jacques Beneix's Diva and Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours meanders along to the beat of a surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing...
Madonna's best bit of luck may be her uproariously appropriate part in Desperately Seeking Susan. Here too, the timing was superb. As Director Susan Seidelman points out, when the movie was cast in the summer of 1984, Madonna was not quite a star. She was just another pretty pop singer, just beginning to be widely known. Madonna's style and attitude got her the part, though not without a lot of hesitation among male executives of Orion Pictures who had never heard of her. A year later she would have been too famous and too expensive for a nonsinging...
Arquette's instincts for this kind of comedy are superb. She is a beautiful dreamer walking through a minefield, at once vulnerable and invincible--and just possibly the funny lady the world has been wanting to cuddle up with for years. In Seidelman she has an admirably laconic director who trusts her material, her impeccably cast actors and herself. In other words she does not lead the laughter at her own jokes. How nice it is to go to a farcically fizzing movie that bursts with youthful high spirits yet still treats you like a functioning adult. By Richard Schickel
...from zero to 60 in no time flat." In Desperately Seeking Susan, Arquette reveals herself as a master of comic body language--and there is eloquence in that delicately voluptuous body--but she still uses something like an internal Ouija board to find Roberta's pressure points. Says Susan Seidelman: "Rosanna has a rich emotional life she's in constant touch with. It meant for enormous temperamental ups and downs on the set. But then I'd look at the rushes and love what's on the screen...