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- First reviewOctober 30, 2009
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Love, love, loved it
PostedJuly 3, 2011
MicheleK
from Chicago
ok - I'm a lover of Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, and all things French - and I have often wandered the same streets as the Owen Wilson character because I too dream of being a writer in Paris (though I am farther away than he is from that dream since I am a lawyer) - so I guess I'm perhaps not your average audience member. I had tears in my eyes when Gil and I realized for the first time that he was talking to Hemingway, and a lump in my throat in the presence of Stein and her apartment, paintings, and artists . I do think that a handsomer actor could have been chosen for Pablo (have you SEEN photos of him in those days?) This movie was done beautifully, the settings were wonderful, the plot just enough of a mixture of reality and fantasy - not excessively convulsive as Woody often is - and the familiar historical figures exactly as I would have pictured them . As I said - and I am not generally a fan of Woody Allen and his childish, self involved, neurotic characters - or of Owen Wilson - I love, love, loved it. I am now re-reading "Moveable Feast" and "Three Lives", and I will see the movie again.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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I cried
PostedOctober 30, 2009
MicheleK
from Chicago
Not a “fan”, I hated his surgeries, sympathized with his search for denied childhood, disbelieved the rumors, and liked his music, but only now see the breadth of his gigantic talent (from the frenetic finger fluttering, feet shuffling, full voiced rendition of "Beat It;" to the moving and beautiful high notes of a love song; and his hands-on control of the entire creative process); and his just plain niceness (as he related to the other performers). Finally, his rendition of old Jackson Five songs, accompanied by four performers replacing his brothers, forced my uncontrollable tears. I had just really met him, but he was gone. I felt astonishment, admiration and deep loss. I wanted him back , for his own children, and the rest of us.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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