2007 Directed by Zoe Cassavetes
Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage". But after a series of disastrous dates, Nora unexpectedly meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman who opens her eyes to a lot more than love.
Parker Posey Drea de Matteo Tim Guinee Gena Rowlands Melvil Poupaud Justin Theroux Peter Bogdanovich Roy Thinnes Michael Panes Philip Pavel Dana Ivey William Wise Josh Hamilton Caitlin Keats Russell Steinberg Santo Fazio Michael Kelly John Wernke James McCaffrey Phyllis Somerville Laurent Pons Bernadette Lafont Thierry Hancisse Yarol Poupaud Sebastien Chenut Karim Gassama Jean-Paul Scarpitta Maud Geffray Patrick Cronen
Mark Cuban Todd Wagner Steven Shainberg Christina Weiss Lurie Olivier Aknin Jean-Baptiste Babin Joel Thibout David Atlan Jackson
Любовь со словарем, Развален английски, אנגלית שבורה, Tört angolsággal, 브로큰 잉글리쉬, Szukając miłości, Uma Americana em Paris, Aşkın İngilizcesi, 蹩脚英语
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-i’m at the combination cassavetes/parker posey picture
Parker Posey self sabotaging a sexy date in order to run home for anxiety pills. That’s a mood
parker posey is Good. hot frenchman in a dumb hat? want to say bad (the hat is very dumb) but he's very cute for a man!
movies about sad lonely rich women who can just up and quit their job and go to paris? that speaks to me. this might pair nicely with paris can wait, which isn't quite the same but both directed by rich ladies from film families about kind of similar characters! give it a shot!
There's more to making a Parker Posey movie than just casting Parker Posey. You have to direct the other actors too.
I mean, lovely Parker Posey was excellent but this was such a meh film. It was weirdly not trying that hard but didn't really do or say anything. The whole thing just sort of existed then didn't.
Also they copied the end of Before Sunset for their own ending quite shamelessly. Lazy.
after watching a summer’s tale earlier today i really wanted to watch another melvil poupaud performance cause he was just too fine and charming. i don’t regret picking this one even though i definitely wish he had more screen time. he & parker posey were really great together and i just really wish we got more time with them together.. oh, but the end? now, i really hope that was an intentional and acknowledged homage to before sunset.
Nora’s failed relationships have left her with a PTSD-like neurosis about meeting men. In perhaps the film’s most dramatic moment, after meeting Julien, when the stakes are suddenly very high, Nora commits a minor conversational faux pas, and spirals into an alarming, very nicely played, panic attack.
It stumbles at first, looking for its bearings, but by the midpoint Broken English is humming along nicely, with intimately grounded, no-nonsense direction by Zoe Cassavetes. Leaking self-confidence as she goes, Nora ping-pongs from one letdown to the next, until her best friend Audrey swoops in to the rescue. Parker Posey is pitch-perfect as Nora, while Melvil Poupaud plays the muted, carefully considerate Julien in his typically winsome way. Drea de Matteo does what some supporting performers sometimes manage, by lifting the film’s entire emotional tone in the final act. Gena Rowlands performs double Mom-duty, as both Nora’s and the director’s mothers. Colorful set that must have been.
A mumblecore(?) thinkpiece on the natural instinct of the modern American woman to feel anxiety around the modern American man. This speaks, in a way, to the frustrations of living in male-dominated spaces to the degree that it feels as though Mr. Right doesn’t exist, or that he’s also just another smug bastard. Parker Posey never loses.
“Most people are together just so they are not alone. But some people want magic.”
Broken English is a low-key romantic comedy written and directed by Zoe Cassavetes, and it’s about a 30-year-old woman (Parker Posey) trying to find someone she can settle down with for life. It’s at its best in its first half as she navigates various dating situations, and Posey has some really nice moments here, displaying vulnerability on top of her usual wry humor. When she meets a Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud) and later travels to Paris to find him again, the film loses a little bit of its traction, then settles for a conventional story line, something I’d normally go for, but here it was a little bit of a letdown. A nice little film though, and as a bonus, look for Gena Rowlands and Peter Bogdanovich in small roles.
i can’t believe i just watched a movie about how Parker Posey is undateable. i find that hard to believe, given how her dates in this were not as cool as she was. then she meets Julien (played by Melvil Poupaud), who likes her the way she is and invites her to Paris even though they barely know each other. the ending won my heart despite how it reminds me of Before Sunset. overall, this was a charming romantic dramedy and like always, i’ll watch anything that features Parker Posey 🫶🏻
Yet another movie in which none of the guys Parker Posey meets are nearly as cool as she is.
