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A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave (Max Minghella) who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria (Rachel Weisz).
A kiss is sometimes just a kiss, unless it’s Adrien Brody smacking Halle Berry’s lips after his Oscar win in 2002 for “The Pianist” or his latest smooch with co-star Rachel Weisz in “The Brothers Bloom.”
The film by Rian Johnson (“Brick,” 2005) is premiering at the Toronto film festival this week.
“He’s a wonderful kisser,” Weisz told a press conference Tuesday of Brody. Their tongues were intertwined in an enthusiastic buss in a memorable scene in the film, she said. “It wasn’t any old on-screen kiss.”
“We needed a lot of rehearsal,” commented Brody. “It was something we had to get just right.”
“Unfortunately, he had to rehearse (it) with me,” quipped Johnson.
The romantic comedy follows two con artists (Brody and Mark Ruffalo) who take a beautiful and eccentric New Jersey heiress (Weisz) on an adventure around the world.
Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”, 2005; “The Mummy”,1999) portrays the titular brothers’ innocent mark with “child-like enthusiasm that I’m sure (audiences) will adore. And so it wasn’t difficult for me to play a man falling madly in love with her,” said Brody.
Audiences are said to be starving for a good adult romance film of late. Indeed, there are only a handful of films that arguably fit into the Toronto film festival’s romance category this year.
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Noted director Wong Kar Wai directs this English-language effort about a heartbroken woman who hits the road in search of personal meaning. Norah Jones takes on the lead, but the jazzy singer doesn’t have enough dramatic depth to keep the internal tension taut, and while the supporting cast that includes Jude Law and Natalie Portman have plenty of depth, they don’t have the material — making for an uneven and unsatisfying voyage.
Starring: Jude Law, Norah Jones, David Strathairn, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz.
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
Parental advisory: Coarse language, violence
Rating: Parental guidance
Running time: 96 minutes
Rating: Two stars out of five
There’s no doubt Shanghai director Wong Kar Wai has a unique film style that’s created some cutting-edge films over the past decade, but Blueberry Nights isn’t one of them.
A stylish but finally unsatisfying story of lost souls, My Blueberry Nights features singer Norah Jones as Liz, a young woman who walks into a cafe with a broken heart, and leaves the keys to her boyfriend’s apartment with Jeremy (Jude Law), the man behind the lunch counter.
Jeremy and Liz end up talking late into the evening about their unrealized dreams and personal failures, an idea embodied in the symbol of Jeremy’s blueberry pie: every day he makes a blueberry pie, and every night, he’s forced to throw it away because no one eats it.
Liz feels a sudden burst of sympathy for the unwanted pie, and shovels a big slice down her gullet before the two eventually part.
It’s just a chance meeting, but anyone familiar with Wong’s earlier work such as Happy Together or In the Mood for Love will recognize the importance of random occurrence in his oeuvre and see that one night as the launch pad for a series of similarly themed events.
Feeling burned by her bad love affair, Liz heads out on the road to discover a different side of herself. She ends up landing jobs in a series of diners and bars, where she hooks up with a variety of characters — all suffering from a similar ailment: a pronounced lack of love and personal meaning.
There’s Arnie Copeland (David Strathairn), an alcoholic cop abandoned by his true love Sue Lynne (Rachel Weisz). We also meet Leslie (Natalie Portman), a young gambling addict with unresolved father issues.
