My Blueberry Nights
My Blueberry Nights is a tour de force for smoky torch singer Norah Jones as Elizabeth The title is from an analogy about heartbreak and blueberry pie delivered by Jude Law as Jeremy, a New York greasy spoon operator. She lands at his lunch counter looking for the man two-timing her and ends up as a regular showing up at closing time for comforting conversation and pie a la mode as he too is getting over his own crushing rejection. Their hooking up seems a natural but instead she leaves town abruptly for long stays in Memphis, Atlanta and briefly in Vegas and along the way other hearts broken in different ways seem to gravitate to her as she deals with the pain in the lives of Arnie (David Strathairn) an alcoholic cop driven to drink by Sue Lynn (Rachel Weisz) his estrange child bride and Leslie (Natalie Portman) a trash talking gambler with daddy issues. Al the while she documents her travels with letters to Jeremy who is desperate to reconnect with Elizabeth but is unable to track her down. My Blueberry Nights is a stylishly directed film with some delightful surprises like cleavage on Portman and the natural acting ability of Jones in her fledgling role and like in her singing career she hits all the right notes with style. Too bad all this isn’t really enough to make the film interesting.