Sunday, June 11, 2006

Picked up and saw Shopgirl for the first time last night. Interesting movie; the kind that makes you want to review it after having seen it. It's slow, but it's the rare sort of movie that deals with romance and doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence or take shortcuts by making the characters shallow and one-dimensional. I particularly liked how the parallels were drawn between the Jason Schwartzmann and Steve Martin characters without hitting us over the head (too much) how similar the two were, in everything but experience. And Claire Danes was perfect, but then again it was a very well-written role that a number of actresses would have done well with (Lauren Ambrose, Julia Stiles, and Scarlett Johansson jump to mind). Complex character with unpredictable but entirely understandable actions. Good movie for those that like movies like it.

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