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By Matthew Odam
| Friday, July 13, 2007, 03:17 PM
At a certain point in life, after the illusions of youth have faded into the recesses of memory and the hard truth of coming to terms with one’s actuality crashes in, a look into the mirror can reveal a loathsome stranger. Such is the case for Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) at the beginning of ‘Broken English,’ the feature debut of writer/director Zoe Cassavetes.
In the film’s opening, Nora fusses nervously with her hair, trying to make herself presentable for the fifth anniversary party of her best friend Audrey (Drea de Matteo), a celebration that brings to bear the point that Nora, adrift somewhere in her 30s, is still not married (or happy), a fact her overbearing mother (Gena Rowlands) is wont to reinforce.
Nora has graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art and dreams of entering the glamorous New York art world, but her ‘Sex in the City’ fairy tale has faded into frustrated resignation. Instead of attending celebrated art exhibitions, she finds herself working as concierge manager for visiting elites at a Manhattan boutique hotel, her love life shipwrecked by failed relationships and bad dates. Determined to find idealized love, Nora retreats to the arms of a movie star (played to amusing effect by Justin Theroux), only to be poisoned once again by lost love’s remorse.
Read my full review here.
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