Broken English
581
Romance. Drama
Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) works in a posh hotel in downtown New York. She is thirty-something and still unattached, as her mother is constantly reminding her. Nora goes on dates which always leave her with the feeling that she will never meet the perfect man, or at least, not as perfect as her friend Audrey's husband. And one day she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), single, hansome, passionate for life, charming... Nora does not want to ... [+]
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United States | Miami Herald | "'Broken English' takes 30 minutes to do what most romantic comedies manage with a simple montage. That's a good thing, by the way." | POS |
United States | Baltimore Sun | "The movie needs more incident and complication; it's modest to a fault." | NEU |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "A wry, charming romance about a New York woman who has given up hope of finding love" | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "A well-acted, smartly directed film that’s depressing because it could have amounted to so much more." | POS |
United States | The Hollywood Reporter | "Demonstrating that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, the screenwriter-director has delivered a well-observed film boasting highly realistic performances and dialogue" | POS |
United States | SFGATE | "'Broken English' doesn't break any code or offer original insights on the subject. But there's a spark whenever Posey and Poupaud are together." | NEU |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "Given the gift of Posey at the peak of her powers, Cassavetes squanders her star in low-key, go-nowhere conversations, shot without flair and drained of any improvisatory energy." | NEU |
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