Four Stars: ˜˜˜˜The first four minutes of B roll of Paris pedestrians set to jazz would have been sufficient to make this movie fabulous but they proceeded into the past. Then they pushed even further back. As the characters each search for their own Golden Age in the past (from 2011 to 1920 to 1890 to 1760), the audience confronts their own denial. After all, the danger of nostalgia is that in an effort to escape the pain of the present, you also miss all the possibility.
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“I actually had a professor that dined there and saw James Joyce like a million years ago and apparently James Joyce was eating sauerkraut and frankfurters.”
“The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. Don’t be such a defeatist.”
“You always take the side of the help, as usual—that’s why Daddy says you’re a Communist!”
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