A double bill of Nancy Meyers kitchens. With conversational interruptions the film took about three hours to watch and maybe that's the reason it seems too long... The other overriding thought is that Keanu Reeves was quite the wrong choice and no doubt when next in the mood I could come up with twenty more suitable actors who could hold their own in a scene with the effortlessly good Nicholson - though Keaton is super, also (and Frances McDormand, whose character sort of disappears, unfortunately. Like the previous film, some of the plotting is a bit patchy).
I was just thinking the
Man Who Came to Dinner when playwright Keaton pre-empts the suggestion by referring to 'Kaufman and Hart'.
Ah! So I had heard Trenet's 'Que Reste T'Il' before! Paris ending is somewhat superfluous, though it's good to see the finished play.
"I have never lied to you. I have always told you one version of the truth."
Michael Ballhaus is the glossy cinematographer this time. Superb editing by Joe Hutshing - but it is a quite edited film - Nancy doesn't favour long takes. Does she draw from her own experience of being divorced (in 1999)?
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