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Plot:
Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships. Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to fi...( read more 
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MCT:June 11, 2008Hmm, I liked this one. It wasn't cutesy like many romantic comedies, and it wasn't easily classifiable, either. I also like that the ending isn't neatly tied up in a package -- it's more like life that way.
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MCT:March 23, 2008I didn't like Parker Posey's role in this - nor that of her best friend played by Drea de Matteo. Their long suffering complaints over their lives while they dragged on their cigarettes with long ashes hanging by a thread, while the Posey character made one bad choice after another & called it "bad luck". Made me want to slap 'em silly and send them off to work with starving children or with the sick and dying in the world to show them what suffering really can be. Just an exceptionally shallow whining spoiled rich girl blah blah blah. I did like the character of her French love-interest played by Melvil Poupaud. There was potential here to be a good and thoughtful thing, but instead it was for the most part pretty boring and hard to sit through without rolling my eyes a lot.
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MCT:March 6, 2008The character makes the same mistakes over and over and never really learns from it. Im not a fan of parker posey so it took me out of the film a little.
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MCT:February 26, 2008
I feel this is a nice movie, where we see the character, the female, just at a loss, confused and always losing out. It had a very Rohmer feel to it, but the thing was, the scenes at Paris were really odd, they left me feeling that, unlike Rohmer's ending which has a beautiful impact a lot of times and always feel the same for his movies, here, it brought out something else. Overall, a fascinatingly interesting movie though.
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MCT:February 18, 2008
Plays out like an arty European episode of "Sex and the City" minus the hollow characters. Parker Posey is remarkable. Scratch Massive's ambient/electronic scoring lends a great deal to the lonely modernist atmosphere.
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MCT:February 12, 2008Really Great Movie... although i agree the ending's been done before in before sunset... i really enjoyed the character of Nora
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MCT:February 3, 2008
It's not bad. I actually enjoyed it. Parker Posey did good. Pretty much relating to Nora Wilder and all her thoughts and emotions ( although I'm not a 30 something woman, yet ).Don't like the ending tho'. It has a happy one. Haha..
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MCT:January 27, 2008A wonderful directorial debut from Zoe Cassavetes and amazing performance by Parker Posey. God knows I'm a sucker for romantic films set in either NY or Paris. My only problem with this film is that I think the ending was a rip-off from the ending of Before Sunset.
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MCT:January 6, 2008
I'm really liking Parker Posey! Single women on a search for love will relate. Juilen is a tasty French man!
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MCT:January 1, 2008
I related to this movie a little too much for my liking... I mean, obviously, if the guy is as hunky as Julian (Melvil Poupaud), it's harder on the girl to let herself fall in love and run away to Paris with him. jk. But I did relate to Nora... that is, her quirky personality with a touch of shyness and cynicism (oh, and her love for art). Her character sorta freaked me out in that so many female NYers seem to fit the mold: uncertain about career, looking for but not finding marriage, needing a long vacation to rethink direction in life. I'm not sure how I would handle being lost in my third decade but I hope it doesn't come to that.
The last scene was sweet- it starts out tense with her coincidentally spotting Julian on the Metro and his not-so-welcome reaction, and then how it resolves at the bar with Julian asking her to stay for little bit longer and her coming to grips with the uncertain future. The final frame of her breaking out into one of her wry smiles was genius. -
MCT:December 16, 2007
I absolutely LOVED this movie. I'm not usually a big Parker Posey fan, but she blew me away in this film. I'm still not sure if it was my state of mind at the time that made me relate so strongly to this story line,(I will have to watch again & see it I feel the same) but I felt like this movie addresses many struggles the modern woman faces today. The ending was a little cliche, but I think on some level we all want to believe in happpy endings...
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MCT:November 16, 2007Not really a great movie but it was ok. I would suggest French Kiss over this one, same idea-ish that a woman needs to grow as a person but French Kiss has a better story behind it.
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MCT:November 15, 2007
This is a great Parker Posey movie. I have always liked her and she was her usual quirky self.
It was sad but funny watching her go through the bad first dates and having her mother constantly remind her that she was single and not getting any younger.
When Nora meets Julien she tries to learn from her mistakes but it's kind of hard to tell a dashing Frenchman no. With that accent, I don't blame her!
The music that went along with the movie was really good.
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MCT:October 28, 2007
My favorite Parker Posey performance, perhaps outside of The House of Yes. There is great chemistry onscreen between Poset and and the charismatic male lead Melvil Poupaud who, before now, was unknown to me.
Drea de Matteo also deserves mention. Here she proves that she's a lot more than Adrianna La Cerva, with a more understated role.
This film is just fun to watch. The slight to mighty quirkiness of all Posey's characters is not lost in Broken English. She delivers what her fans love about her.
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MCT:October 7, 2007
Awesome performance by Posey. This movie hits close to heart, and is a very interesting character study...
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MCT:October 2, 2007
The uncomfortable moments of no dialogue in this movie are insane, intense, and so real. In real life we don't always have clever witty things to say. It just is. I absolutley love this movie!!!
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MCT:September 27, 2007
i'm glad i took a chance on this one. parker posey did a great job on this film. the best acting i've seen from posey in this film. this film was shot very well. also a great soundtrack. when i watched this, i got a sense of realism.
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MCT:September 15, 2007
This seemed like it would be very relateable if I were a mid twenties single woman. Parker Posey was pretty charming like always. I think I like films with the formula of someone searching for something in their life and then finding it in the end.
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MCT:September 15, 2007I was rather disappointed with this flick. The acting was decent, nothing spectacular. But, it just left something to be desired. I hate to dump on a movie about letting down your guard, self discovery, and finding love. I'm all for good things happening to people. Even though it's a movie, it just didn't seem very realistic to as what someone would experience going to another country. For me it fell flat. I did like the movie, like Parker Posey, and the eye pleasing Melvil Poupaud. Maybe I just expected too much.
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MCT:September 9, 2007
A little slow, but in the end you will be glad you watched. This was also a very different part for Parker Posey to play. I am so used to seeing her being stupid that I didn't know what to do with her role here ;)
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MCT:September 9, 2007
Broken English is a cute, though sometimes disjointed and slow paced, romantic comedy about a neurotic thirty-something female who has not found that special someone to love. This film is quirky and only those unmarried females over thirty or those who didn't marry until they were over thirty will truly 'get' the jest of the plot. Most others will probably find it boring and senseless. Parker Posey fans will enjoy her in this whacked out role.
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MCT:September 8, 2007
Parker Posey is Nora Wilder, a neurotic, 30-something, single woman living in New York City, working a lack-luster job, who's not very happy with her life. By her own admission, she can't remember the last time she fell asleep without the aid of alcohol, or drugs. Driven by the impression that her friends all seem to be in happy relationships and a mother who's quick to remind her that "the good ones get snapped up so quickly at your age", Nora consistently gets involved with the wrong men, for the wrong reasons. That is until she's introduced to a laidback, Frenchman named Julien at a co-workers party, who happens to find her attractive. Written/directed by Zoe R. Cassavetes and co-starring Gena Rowlands, Drea de Matteo and Melvil Poupaud, Broken English could be interpreted as either a romantic comedy, or a tragic drama.
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