My Blueberry Nights

PG-13

Released Apr 4, 2008

1 hr. 30 min.

Drama

Romance

List

46%

133 Reviews

Tomatometer

61%

25,000+ Ratings

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After her boyfriend of five years breaks up with her, Elizabeth (Norah Jones) consoles herself by consuming creamy confections at a sympathetic cafe owner's (Jude Law) eatery. She sets out on a road trip, supporting herself as a waitress along the way. Elizabeth meets a host of interesting characters on her journey, including an alcoholic policeman (David Strathairn), his unfaithful wife (Rachel Weisz), and a gambler (Natalie Portman).

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Critics Consensus

Though well filmed, My Blueberry Nights is a mixed bag of dedicated performers working with thin material.

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David W

My Blueberry Nights demonstrates that a strong cast giving truly great performances is no substitute for weak directing and an underdeveloped screenplay. Having seen this once, I feel no desire to watch it again.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/21/24

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isla s

First off, this is a very stylishly filmed film. It features lots of bright, vibrant (almost neon type, in perhaps a slightly Vegas-y type way) colours and some scenes feature what appears to be freeze-framed, quirky camerawork. It has a bit of a dreamlike feel to it. The characters are curious, although quite what's going on isn't made especially clear at the start. I also liked the music played in the background. It is relatively little in the way of dialogue present - it has quite an arty type feel to it. I suppose the main character, Elizabeth, maybe isn't entirely likeable but I didn't feel that was a big put off as such. The plot is a bit hard to follow I suppose. It has a slight road trip/Thelma & Louise feel to it too, I'd say. Oh and also, it's the kind of film that may be worth multiple viewings but I reckon it's good in it's own way, either way.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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marc r

Pretty of course, but dramatically and emotionally unpersuasive.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Sky H

It is a little hard to follow but visually fascinating nonetheless. I just wish the plot was... better. Watching this film makes me feel stoned and I love that effect. Amazing music by Norah Jones.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/20/21

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Audience Member

In the first couple of scenes, my optics were shocked by WKW trademarks, flagrantly thrown before my face. This is, and I hate to say it, Wong Kar-wai at his most immature, trying to enthrall the audience who are first introduced to his cinema in his English feature debut with his sensual and lustrous visuals as if they were, in themselves, what made him the idiosyncratic and influential filmmaker he is. Lost love and faded dreams are, more or less, the essential themes that reverberate through each of his art pieces. Yet, the doubt he's treading familiar ground over and over again has never crossed my mind when I see his characters amidst their feelings of longing, indulging in pain. Sadly, I felt that here, the thing that forced me to judge this film outside the canon of "WKW Cinema." For the first time, it sounds that he exposes some sort of lack of confidence, as if he deals with his freewheeling, near-plotless and episodic nature of his films as flaws that need to be sorted out by bashfully concealing them in the midst of the superfluous use of step-printing alongside the charm of hollywood actors starring this film. But, and as the movie obliterated any chance it would be judged within the canon of "WKW Cinema," I have to say that My Blueberry Nights is an irresistibly delectable treat with a fairly tasteful romantic flavour enough to mellow my heart and no shortage of cherries on the top served by the appeal and the charisma of the cast. (6.5/10)

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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steve d

The film works because of the cast, but they are not helped with the forgettable script.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Rated: 3/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Rated: 1/5

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Paul Byrnes

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That's another thing about Wong: even when you're not quite sure what he's trying to say, or if he actually has anything to say, you get your money back in the beauty with which he says it.

Sep 19, 2008

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

A visual masterpiece, Wong Kar-wai's stylized mannerisms waffle between artifice and a certain coldness that is only overcome in the end by dramatic and emotional intensity.

Rated: 3.5/5

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Josh Larsen

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...an awkward exercise in translating Wong kar-Wai to a Western setting.

Rated: 1.5/4

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B.L. Panther

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This film has the right ingredients. There just seems to have been a problem with the baking.

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Synopsis

After her boyfriend of five years breaks up with her, Elizabeth (Norah Jones) consoles herself by consuming creamy confections at a sympathetic cafe owner's (Jude Law) eatery. She sets out on a road trip, supporting herself as a waitress along the way. Elizabeth meets a host of interesting characters on her journey, including an alcoholic policeman (David Strathairn), his unfaithful wife (Rachel Weisz), and a gambler (Natalie Portman).

Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Executive Producer: Chan Ye Cheng
Screenwriter: Lawrence Block, Kar-Wai Wong
Distributor: Weinstein Co.
Production Co: Studio Canal, Jet Tone Productions, Block 2 Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Mature Thematic Material|Drinking|Smoking|Violence)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 4, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $866.8K
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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