Broken English (2007)

This Movie Is About a woman who's successful, charismatic, beautiful and horrible with the opposite sex and getting what she wants in life. Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) is always attracted to the wrong type of guys. Well, she's always attracted to the types of guys that are only attracted to her for one thing. She gets hurt, goes on a no-men phase then does it all over again. She's been doing it for the better part of her adult life and things seem to be the same when she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud). They meet, have a great time, then he goes back to France leaving her forever. But oh no, our girl isn't taking this shit sitting down anymore. She knows that Julian is the one for her and she's not going to let opportunity slip by unchallenged again! In a whimp, she flies off to France in search of her mystery man but finds so much more!

You Should Watch This Because Parker Posey is one of those actresses who don't get a lot of credit for doing a lot of hard work. You might recognize her when you first see her but you won't be able to put a finger on what you've seen her in! Not until you check our good friends at IMDB, of course. Then you will remmeber that she was the lead vampire in Blade: Trinity as well as many other supporting roles! She has pretty much done it all except play a lead. Well, she's finally gotten her shot and she does not disappoint. If only her performance can salvage the rest of the film, then we woulda had a real winner!

What's Hot is how simple the story is and how well it works. It's a character study that doesn't seem to be going anywhere at times, but the pace, although very slow does well in drawing you into the story by providing organic situations and natural characters which the majority of the audience can relate to because they are dealing with real life situations and problems!

What's Not Hot is the over acting by everyone else! I don't get it... It seems that all these actors had to do was think about how they would react in this situation and do it! Okay, Okay, I'm making it sound much easier than it really is and I'm not knocking the acting biz. But some of the acting in this film outside of Parker Posey is just poor and often times hair pulling. The story is overall good and simple but there are times when it doesn't really know what's going on. It presents all these conflicts that i don't think resolves in the end, which I guess could be the theme that not all problems in life can be solved but if it is, then it was very confusing and not very well thought out.

Breaking It Down:
Story: 6.8 (Zoe R. Cassavetes)
Direction: 6.5 (Zoe R. Cassavetes)
Acting: 7.2
Cinematography: 6.0
Music/Sound: F

Entertainment Value: 6.2 (Not an Average)