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My Blueberry Nights is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Wong Kar-wai released in USA on 4 april 2008 with Norah Jones
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
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Add to a movie listMy Blueberry Nights is a 2007 romance/drama/road film directed by Wong Kar Wai, his first feature in English. The screenplay by Wong and Lawrence Block is based on a short Chinese-language film written and directed by Wong. This film was the debut of jazz singer Grammy-winner Norah Jones as an actress, and also starred Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz, Natalie Portman, and Benjamin Kanes.
The cinematographer of this film was Darius Khondji. Christopher Doyle was Wong's cinematographer for his last seven features before My Blueberry Nights, starting from 1990's Days of Being Wild.
Synopsis
Jeremy is an émigré from Manchester who owns a small New York City cafe. The cafe becomes a haven for Elizabeth, a young woman, as Jeremy tells her that he saw her boyfriend cheating on her. Devastated, she stays in his cafe the entire night, eating a blueberry pie he made, and also telling stories about each other. Jeremy, having an eidetic memory, explains her the bowl of keys he is keeping, knowing the story of every person who left the key in his cafe and keeping it in the bowl in case someone comes back for them. Elizabeth leaves her key of her apartment and leaves Jeremy's cafe.Actors
Norah Jones
(Elizabeth)
Jude Law
(Jeremy)
David Strathairn
(Arnie)
Mathieu Kassovitz
(Dan Lee, ami alcoolique de Lizzie, suite au départ de Arnie)
Rachel Weisz
(Sue Lynne)
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