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Since it's Broadbent, Duncan and Goldblum doing the skipping, trashing and mimicking, their second adolescence is great fun to watch.
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Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (IRIS, TOPSY-TURVY, ANOTHER YEAR) and Lindsay Duncan (the forthcoming ABOUT TIME, ALICE IN WONDERLAND, MANSFIELD PARK) give exquisite performances as Nick and Meg, a long-married British couple revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship.
During a two-day escapade, diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness -- and even deeper regret. A surprise invitation from Nick’s old friend Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), an amusingly boorish American academic with a fancy Parisian address, soon leads them to an unexpectedly hopeful vision of what their love and marriage might still become.
This magically buoyant, bittersweet comedy drama, starring two of Britain’s national treasures, is a new peak in the ongoing collaboration between screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell, following VENUS, THE MOTHER and THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA.
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2013 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2013 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
During a two-day escapade, diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, take-charge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness -- and even deeper regret. A surprise invitation from Nick’s old friend Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), an amusingly boorish American academic with a fancy Parisian address, soon leads them to an unexpectedly hopeful vision of what their love and marriage might still become.
This magically buoyant, bittersweet comedy drama, starring two of Britain’s national treasures, is a new peak in the ongoing collaboration between screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell, following VENUS, THE MOTHER and THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA.
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2013 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2013 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
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Runtime
93
Language
English
Cast
Jim Broadbent
FEATURED REVIEW
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan are plummy perfection as a British pair in their 60s who hope to reenergize their marriage with a trip to Paris. But the vacation winds up deepening their differences, especially in terms of intimacy (she’s turned off, he’s plaintively hooked on her). Screenwriter ...
Played at
Claremont 5 3.21.14 - 4.03.14
Playhouse 7 3.21.14 - 4.13.14
Town Center 5 3.21.14 - 4.10.14
Monica Film Center 3.28.14 - 4.10.14
Lumiere Music Hall 4.04.14 - 4.24.14
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