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A musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter in which the musician looks back on his life as if it was one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the ac...( read more 
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MCT:August 6, 2008
Great acting from Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd, but not amazing, the movie is like the male version of Being Julia, good script .... 7.5/10.-
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MCT:July 28, 2008I like this movie! It's a good love story about Cole Porter and the love of his life, Linda Porter, his wife. This movie has wonderful music, performed by great artists. I like this movie and highly recommend it!
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MCT:July 10, 2008
i thought Kevin Kline was awesome in this role of Cole Porter...loved the soundtrack too..yet another performance that academy missed on to consider ...when will they ever learn???!?
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MCT:January 26, 2008This musical is really bad. I'm sorry to say that but I didn't find that Ashley Judd and Kevin Kline had any chemistry and I thought the songs were not very good. None of the songs were very catchy and it was boring too.
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MCT:January 21, 2008
This stylish, avant-garde bio-pic about bi-sexual composer Cole Porter is slow to start and at least half an hour too long, but contains strong acting and some spirited performances of many beloved tunes. The frame story involves an eldery Porter watching the dress rehearsal of a stageshow based on his life, and one of the better gags involves the commentary from the old Cole, continuously criticizing the on-screen actions of the young (Kevin Kline) Cole.
There's so much style on display here (the final shot in particular is haunting, if vaguely reminiscent of "Titanic"), and yet the film never quite gels. De-Lovely is an ambitious failure, but it gets points for trying something different with one of the most tired of cinematic sub-genres.
(Doctor Who fans, look for John "Captain Jack" Barrowman in a small role.) -
MCT:January 15, 2008
Nice story well told. I felt sorry for Linda during the whole movie but, ack, if she could stand it, why can't I?
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MCT:November 18, 2007
Highly entertaining film about the life of Cole Porter. Sort of a Moulin Rouge but a musical and set mostly in Paris in the early 1900's. Wait. No, that's right... Great production design, performances and, of course, music make this an underappreciated gem of 2004.
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MCT:November 1, 2007this film was well done, i was a bit confused at the start about how the story was being portrayed but once i realised that it was his past you were seeing and being acted out by the people he knew and loved it was a lovely story, Kline, although i didnt recognixe him, played Porter effortlesly, and the many actors that played family and friends and lovers were great. i was glad to see that i knew a lot more cole porter songs than i thought with excellent singers bringing them to life throughout the story of his complicated life.
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MCT:October 26, 2007Some classy jams of course, and Kline and Judd are all right, but everything else comes off pretty stiff. Just another music biopic.
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MCT:September 19, 2007
A better movie than I thought it would be. But then, with actors like these, even if the script had been bland, they would have brought life into the story. I liked it. And the music is enchanting, of course.
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MCT:September 2, 2007
This was a great re-telling of the life of composer Cole Porter and the amazing songs and music he's inspired and brought to life. The format is pretty interesting in terms of the whole back and forth with the empty theater along with Jonathan Pryce and through in the bonus of the killer performances and you have a pretty great film.
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MCT:September 2, 2007Waaw, what a cast! Kevin Kline is just a brilliant actor here, Ashley Judd is gorgeous!
I read so many negative critics about this movie, one of them is that the writer took too many liberties and had facts incorrect. Of course that would only disturb the real Cole Porter fans. But I did not know anything about this singer's life, neither did I know his songs so all those "liberties" didn't really disturb me. I enjoyed the lovely music very much, I loved the performers, all of them brilliant voices. Must have been one of my favourite musicals of all time! -
MCT:August 16, 2007
A celebration of a life fully lived. Keeps you wondering who else is going to cover Porter's songs throughout the film, Robbie Williams, Elvis Costelo, Alanis Morissette, Natalie Cole and Lara Fabian. A fantastic adaptation of a great life story.
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MCT:July 23, 2007
I love musical biographies and Cole Porter songs. Courageously told story and innovative presentation with modern song performances set in the period. Kevin Kline was perfect casting. I would have gone further with Cole's bisexuality....
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MCT:July 21, 2007
Not really interested in seeing this, but when I did, I saw an excellent movie with a fine cast and a story about a mans life I never new was so interesting, really worth a look!
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This movie so sweet in love, and show the really love inside. Love is not all beautiful. but must to give and when the love have promble, don't say anything. sometimes love can't change the other, just go away. When the love come.................the time will past, don't have hate, if you hate someone that because you still love , when the hate and love gone............only the memories stay.
Love not give up anythings, only stay and when the way can go, just go and be quite.
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The movie very good for the act and light. I like a movies have music and act. It's a good acters to show the stories. very beautiful...........
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The Love song I like it:
Love for sale.
Appetizing young love for sale.
Love that's fresh and still unspoiled.
Love hat's only slightly soiled.
Love........for sale.
Who......... will buy?
Who would like to sample my supply?
Who's prepared to pay the price for a trip to paradise?
Love........for sale.
Let the poets pipe of love in their childish way.
I know every type of love better far than they.
If you want the thrill of love.
I'v been throught the mill of love.
OLd love, New love.
every love but true love.
Love ..........for sale.
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Every time we say Good-bye!
I die a little.
Every time we say Good-bye!
I wonder why a little.
Why the Gods above me.
Who must be in the know.
Think so little of me.
They allow you to go.
When your're near.
There's such an air of spring about it.
I can hear, a lark somewhere being to sing about it.
There's no love song finer.
But how strange the change from major to minor.
Every time we say Good-bye!
Good bye!
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In the still of the night.
As I gaze from may window.
At the moon in it's flight.
My thoughts all stray to you.
In the still of the night.
While the world is in slumber.
Oh, the times without number.
Darling, when I say to you.
Do you love me?
as I love you?
Are you my life to be?
my dream come true?
or will this dream of mine?
Fade out of sight, like the moon.
Growing dim on the rim, of the hill, in the chill.
Still of the night?
Like the moon.
Growing dim on the rim,
of the hill, in the chill.
Still of the night?
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Strange, dear , but true, dear.
When I'm close to you, dear.
The stars fill the sky.
So in love with you am I.
Even without you.
My arms fold about you.
You know, darling why?
So in love
with you , am I.
In love with the night mysterious.
The night when you first were there.
In love with my joy delirious.
So taunt me and hurt me.
Peceive me, desert me.
I'm yours till I die.
So in love..........
So in love with you, My love!
In love with the night mysterious.
The night when you first were there.
In love with my joy delirious.
When I knew that you could care.
So taunt me and hurt me.
Deceive me , desert me.
I'm yours till I die.
So in love ,,,,,,,
So in love with you, My love!, am I.
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I like the words in the movies:
What's discretion but dishonesty wrapped upin a little good breeding?.............
I don't understand , too.
Love is from a broken heart........I know it. -
MCT:June 24, 2007
It's basically everything Beyond the Sea wanted to be and, while it works better here, it's still not fully effective. However, Kline and Judd shined all the way through, and Jonathan Pryce was also quite endearing (in a very Tony Hopkins in Chaplin sort of character)
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MCT:June 14, 2007well its about cole porter n its got john barrowman in it wat u expect of course i wanna see it sooooo bad
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MCT:June 9, 2007
Isnt it lovely? Lets misbehave. The story of Cole Porter. Features Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morisette and more. I highly recommend. A great musical.
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MCT:June 6, 2007
Really a sad story, but you don't notice it beacause of the happy set. The songs and the characters are great! I just love the songs! The best musical ever!
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MCT:June 1, 2007Boring, Kline and Judd aren't great, and they fuck up Cole Porter's music with weird covers. That said, the covers that are good make this film sorta worthy.
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