Choose Me
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Geneviève Bujold, John Larroquette, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau Director: Alan Rudolph Brand: Sony Producer: David Blocker Producer: Carolyn Pfeiffer DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 106 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-11-06 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Choose Me
Movie Review: An Ophuls rondelay transplanted to bleary-eyed LA.
Summary: 4 Stars
'Choose Me' is a romantic melodrama structured like a farce, thriving on exits, entrances, bad timing, mistaken identities, coincidences, sexual play and mounting violence. Following his beloved Ophuls, Alan Rudolph charts the shifting relationships and sexual/romantic entanglements of 6 characters - Genevieve Bujold, a sexually repressed radio-psychologist; Lesley Anne Warren, a prostitute-turned-bar-owner, whose pleasure in promiscuity cannot conceal a desire for love; John Larroquette, Warren's barman and occasional lover; Keith Carradine, a recently released mental patient and self-confessed 'pathological liar', who may or may not have been a killer, CIA spy, mechanic, top photographer, multiple husband, who asks every woman he kisses to marry him, and around whose loose-limbed sexual presence the various plots turn; Rae Dawn Chong, who hangs around Warren's bar wanting to catch her cheating French gangster husband, Patrick Bauchau - with a narrative as fluid as his camera, weightlessly gliding through and between scenes, its very textures charged with the emotional volitility of the characters.With Rudolph films, it is all-or-nothing - either his elaborately artificial constructions work completely, or they collapse; either the viewer falls for the artifice (not just in the coincidence-laden plot, but the neon-pink mise-en-scene, with lighting, interiors, choreography, composition and music orchestrated to unreal effect) or you are repelled. The artifice, disdaining social realism, penetrates deep emotional truths, and the ambiguous last frame is the best since 'The 400 Blows'. 'Choose Me' was considered a masterpiece on its release; its characters, waltz-like rhythms, witty script and swooning self-belief are certainly seductive, as is its willingness to punctuate the seriousness about romance with silly bits of business; in hindsight, however, it looks like a dry run for Rudolph's masterpiece, 'Afterglow', which is similar in set-up, but somehow just right in a way 'Choose Me' nearly is, but isn't quite.