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[review] Clean: The road to rec ...
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"Say what you want about addiction, but for many who have suffered or are still suffering from it, it is mere luck of the draw. For Emily (played by Maggie Cheung), the protagonist of Clean, the hand she was dealt was a losing one as her struggles with heroin envelop her very sense of self (rock star, wife, mother). Her existence lies at the needle’s end. It is not only monetarily costly, but one emotionally as well, as she loses her husband Lee to an overdose, and, subsequently, her young son Jay (played by James Dennis), who lives with Lee’s parents (played by Nick Nolte and Martha Henry) after her custody is revoked. It would be easy to dismiss her a good-for-nothing druggie, but Albrecht (Nolte) , now thechild’s leagal guardian approaches matters much more rationally. Perhaps it is because of his son’s death and the "
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Spout # 12: Clean(Or; The Redem ...
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"OK, so perhaps the connection isn't that major, and it certainly isn't anything brought up by the movie itself, but the parallels are hard to deny. It's safe to assume that at some point in the production of this movie, which follows a woman blamed(by some) for the overdose of her more famous rock star husband as she tries to get her act together and regain some of her fame, someone must have brought up Courtney Love and Nirvanafrontman Kurt Cobain. Perhaps Olivier Assayas even looked back to the story of that couple for some inspiration or ideas, but that's probably as far as it went. At the opening of the film we see Emily(Maggie Cheung) and her musician husband arriving in a small town for a gig. Most of this is irrelevant, and only serves to impress upon us that Emily is a junkie, and she's blamed by those around her for dragging her far more talented husband into her addiction. In fact, the first thing we witness Emily doing is setting up a connection so she can score drugs la ... "
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"It’s funny how out of control a rumor can spin on the web. The Angelina Jolie as Catwoman “news” has to be at the top of the list of most reported unconfirmed rumors ever. And it’s sad that it’s not actually true, because after seeing Jolie in the dominatrix outfit she wears at the beginning of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I’d be perfectly fine seeing her wear another tight black costume for a possible third Christopher Nolan-directed Batman movie. But who instead could play the part, if Jolie is indeed not interested, or not even offered the role (or, obviously, if Catwoman is not in the movie, as screenwriter David Goyer has apparently hinted)? One theory says that Maggie Gyllenhaal will return in the follow-up to The Dark Knight, this time donning a catsuit (
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"Clean (2004) Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Maggie Cheung, Béatrice Dalle, Nick Nolte, Don McKellar, Jeanne Balibar. Clean stars Maggie Cheung as Emily, a junkie and the lover of a rock star, Lee (James Johnston) who overdoses on heroin, who must overcome her own addiction so that she can regain the love of her son. The child is living with his father’s parents while Cheung serves a jail sentence for drug possession and abetting in her lover’s death. Once she gets out of jail, she meets with the grandfather, Albrecht (Nick Nolte). He knows that she isn’t going to be able to care for the child and prevents her from visiting. Free and on her own she moves to Paris, where she comes to realize that her friends don’t really like her, they only tolerated her in order to care for Lee when he was alive. Vernon (Don McKeller), the formare band manager, especially makes it clear that all they old friends blame her for Lee’s death. Jeanne Balibar p ... "
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"Clean (2004) *** stars out of 5 Directed by: Olivier Assayas Starring: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Martha Henry and James Dennis Running Time: 111 minutes Rated: R Synopsis: Clean begins with the heroin overdose and subsequent death of a formerly successful rock star. This leaves his girlfriend, Emily Wang (Cheung) to serve a six month sentence alone and without the drugs she is so desperately addicted to. She is also left with a deep desire to reconnect with the son, Jay (Dennis) she has yet to build a relationship with. &nb "
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[REVIEW] Clean: A Moving film a ...
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"Palm Pictures presents an Olivier Assayas film titled Clean. Clean stars Maggie Cheung in her Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award winning role as Emily, the junkie wife of a rock star. This picture also stars Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle, Jeanne Balibar, Martha Henry, James Johnston, Rémi Martin, and introduces James Dennis. Clean is MPAA rated R for drug content, language and brief nudity. This film runs 111 minutes. The wife of a has-been rock star struggles with the heroin addiction she and her husband shared. After tragedy strikes, she fights to regain her footing in life so that she can, maybe, reenter the life of her son who has lived with his father’s parents since the tragedy. Cinematographer Eric Gautier expertly films this picture, winning the Technical Grand Prize in Cannes, 2004. The editing is very clean and, of course, the performances are very good – as mentioned above, Maggie Cheung won the Best Actress award in Cannes. Nick N ... "
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A Long Road to Become Clean
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"Clean (2004) is a movie by Olivier Assayas, director of as Paris, je t’aime (2006), takes us on a journey into the hard world of the music business and drugs. Clean stars Maggie Cheung in her award winning role as Emily Wang, girlfriend and heroin addict of a struggling rocker and fellow junkie, Lee Hauser (played by James Johnson). After breaking off a potential gig in Canada, both travel back to their hotel. They both argue about how she is blamed for Lee’s continuing failures and she ends up leaving for the night and gets high in an empty parking lot. The next morning when Emily returns, the police are in the room where Lee was found dead of a drug overdose. The police arrest her when she attempts to get into the room and discover a couple of bags of heroin in her purse. Emily is sentenced to six months in prison and when she is released, she is briefly reunited with Lee’s father Albrecht (played by Nick Nolte). Albrecht also takes care of Emily and Lee& ... "
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Recovery Chic
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"It would seem that society is increasingly embracing the present and the past. For all of the market testing, advance polling, and research analysis which has reduced so many of our figureheads to puppets caught in the winds of popular opinion, there is a growing lack of restraint and forethought in the actions of many of our celebrities. Chalk it up to the information age if you'd like, to the ubiquitous surveilance we are under from the totalitarian slanted government, the predatory press, and every schmuck with a camera phone; perhaps we have no choice but to wash and dry our dirty laundry in the public eye. Still, the sea change in how information is delivered seems to have resulted in decisions made for the short term becoming far more prevelant than they ever were before. We needn't look any farther than Lindsay Lohan's latest attempt at respectability after several stints in rehab: posing as Marilyn Monroe in New York magazine. It's mind-bogglingly embar ... "
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"There is nothing particularly badly done about the movie Clean, but there is not much remarkable about it either.For a movie about drugs, bad relationships, motherhood, prison, the entertainment industry, big city hopping, and a lot more, there is surprisingly few high or low points of drama. Everything kind of just trudges along. Which might be fine if there was also some humor. But this movie is not only lacking in drama, it's completely lacking in humor. There's not a lick of it. And there's certainly no action. What else is there? Art? Not really.I was thinking maybe it was hard for me to respond to this movie because it focuses on a culture that I generally have an aversion to and little interest in. People who are looking for fame and reputation. People who want to be cool but are still interested in fame and money. How do I describe it? You know people who have no real personality, but a big ego, and listen to crappy music?But I don't think I have ... "
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Sometimes Clean Can Be Sterile
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"If the meaning in Olivier Assayas' CLEAN is to be found by reading in between the lines, by listening hard during breathy pauses, or by paying extra close attention as characters vacantly survey one another then fine...but this isn't my idea of a good time. CLEAN just is what it is, I suppose. It lays out its story with dispassionate realism, with an observational neutrality that is nether revealing nor involving. Obviously someone must have loved this film enough to make it, and to distribute it. I just don't understand why.I suppose I do get that Emily Wang (Maggie Cheung) is a burned out shell of a human being, and that the only thing pulling her back is the threat that she will no longer be allowed to see her son. Does this make her an interesting character? Her motives are selfish. That's ok I guess, that's realistic, fine. But one has to wonder if this character wants to get better for herself as well. Is there anything that lies beneath? Does sh ... "
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