“My Blueberry Nights”, famous Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar Wai’s English-language debut movie, is a movie that tells three stories. These stories are about three different types of addiction: addiction to gambling, addiction to alcohol, and, most of all, addiction to love.
Despite Wong Kar Wai’s mastership with movies, in fact in “My Blueberry Nights” nothing profound will get discovered. That is why the movie is not able to mark a career breakthrough for the Chinese director.
“My Blueberry Nights” is a film in which Wai is chasing a mood, feeling and a specific atmosphere, much as he did one in “In the Mood for Love”, which was premiered seven years ago at the same Cannes Film Festival.
The camera is used to notice how people eat and smoke, how doors and windows and space itself can confine people. This impressionistic camera technique is used as a metaphor for the Hong Kong way of life.
But in the casinos from Memphis, Manhattan and Nevada this limitation is more emotional, than physical. People are living by making obsessions over other people, having behaviors that ill suit them.
The movie could be considered a hot art house piece, as it is cool and cerebral. Its cast is made from important actors, such as singer Norah Jones, who’s having an auspicious acting debut, Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and David Strathairn. Despite these things, the movie is not so likely to move beyong the art house in North America. It is quite possible for it to achieve greater box-office success both in Asia and Europe, on certain markets.
The whole first third part of “The Blueberry Nights” takes place in Manhattan, where Elizabeth, played by Norah Jones, and Jeremy, played by Jude Law, will start a relationship. Jeremy will feed Elizabeth blueberry pie, the desert that is always left at closing the diner where he works. “Nobody wants” blueberry pie, so Jeremy has a lot of it to feed Elizabeth. He is falling in love with her, but she won’t notice it, because of her grief, as she was dumped by her lover.

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