Mar 1st
My Blueberry Nights* (12A)
Barbican Cinema

Hong Kong/China/Fra 2007. Optimum/Block 2/Jet Tone/Lou Yi/Studio Canal. 111m.

A girl who has been jilted decides to go on the road, and experiences other people's tales of lost love.
Rambling and pretentious but once again haunting paean to the memory of lost love (the title being a metaphor for people making other choices) by this director, in his first American-set film, with a talented cast, some of them against type.

Written by: Wong Kar Wai, Lawrence Block.
Producers: Wong Kar Wai, Wang Wei, Jacky Pang Yee Wah, Stephane Kooshmanian, Jean-Louis Piel.
Director: Wong Kar Wai.
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman, Chan Marshall, Frankie Faison.
Photography: Darius Khondji.
Music: Ry Cooder.

Preceded by:
The Crowd
(GB TVM 2007. 3m.; w, d, s: Rowan Sawday.)
+ entrant in the 2008 Big Issue Film Festival at the Barbican.