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Entropy
Entropy is a semi-autobiographical film which tells the story of a young director struggling to make a film for a despotic studio while his life falls apart around him. Along the way, he goes on tour with U2 to help them make a music video, gets married in Vegas, and has a conversation with his cat.
Release : | 1999 |
Rating : | 6.2 |
Studio : | Phoenician Entertainment, Interlight, Baldwin/Cohen Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Location Scout, |
Cast : | Stephen Dorff Judith Godrèche Kelly Macdonald Lauren Holly Jon Tenney |
Genre : | Drama Comedy Romance |
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Overrated and overhyped
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
Steven Dorff(Blade) as a filmmaker named Jake Welsh gives a good lead acting.It spans one year during the existence of a young director who narrates how he meets French model named Stella(Judith Godreche,starring with DiCaprio of¨Man in the iron mask¨)and emerges love at first sight.Then they live together but their employments frequently keep them apart.Welsh tries to make a balance among the demands of chairman(Hector Elizondo:Pretty woman)and producers(Paul Guifoyle:CSI,Frank Vincent)his first film and the pressures his new love.Welsh's immaturity eventually separates them and posteriorly a brief appointment is married a beautiful girl named Pia(Kelly McDonald:Finding Neverland)during a rapid wedding in Las Vegas.This is a slow-moving film about a dull romance and emotional problems of an arrogant moviemaker.This clichéd film contains a slow-pace and it manages the tale down.The Steven Dorff-Jake Welsh character narrates this story of dull manner,retelling how his existence how goes astray and gets worse.Appears uncredited the singer ¨Bono¨ interprets as himself and his group U2 with concert scenes while the director Jake Welsh is shooting.Special appearance by Lauren Holly(Dumb and dumber,Turbulence) as an actress obligated to nudism and Kathryn Erbe(Law and order) as his sister,besides Drena DeNiro(Robert DeNiro's daughter) as a waitress .The best of the film is the sympathetic cat which bound and leaps on the shower's curtain,besides speaks and smokes. Colorful cinematography by Carolyn Chan with rapid images and split screen and atmospheric music score by George Fenton.The motion picture is regularly directed by Phil Joanou,a successful director(Gridiron gang,Heaven's prisoners,Final analysis) and filmmaker of video-clips and films for U2(Rattle and hum).
Lots of nice minimal jokes. Surreal amusing look at a young Hollywood director's search for the perfect partner. His life falls apart, in an affable way - he's likable. My scratched rental DVD jammed appropriately enough about half way, where there's a turning point. The picture blocked and jittered (almost a technique used in the movie) and ten minutes later the fun began, for me, with the introduction of the gorgeous Kelly Macdonald. If you've ever felt your work or love life's collapsing, and seen the irony of it, you might enjoy this film. It's a sweet story, nothing gruesome or sleazy. Music's minimal and appropriate. No sentimentality - not a trace. Just a nice bloke trying to find love.
I've just seen this movie and it took me about ninety minutes to realize that the filmmakers were serious about what I thought must be irony.There's Jake, a completely nice and normal guy who is a music video director. Since he lives in a Manhattan loft, I think he is meant to be the successful and kind of crazy artist, however he's just average. Jake falls in love with Stella, a french girl. Now, there has probably never existed a more clichéd version of a french girl apart from Amélie. Stella is soft and tender, has huge eyes, a beeping voice and is of course very difficult. They fall in "love at first sight" in which also Jake, the fancy artist appears to believe. But then things get complicated, because she wants to be a housewife and mother and starts to call him at work all the time, while he's busy messing up his first feature movie. The movie shooting is sort of the parallel plot, but there's not much to report from there, although the producers, the chairman of the studio and the two protagonists of his movie add at least some fun and distraction.Later on, Stella has gone back to France and Jake, who drank himself to near unconsciousness at a typical (Irish ) U2-Party, somehow manages to fly to Las Vegas with Pia and to marry her. Now Pia is Irish, definitively clichéd as well, but at least she's cool. She too loves Jake, who seems to have this magical aura that lets women immediately fall in love with him upon first sight. Nevertheless, Jake has still only Stella on his mind, which is puzzling, because she's so boring, especially if you consider Pia, but then, Jake's boring, too.And that's the problem with this movie: There are too many clichés and two boring people, whom the audience should like and hope that they manage to come together again. Well, I couldn't and I couldn't believe that the filmmakers really are serious about Jake and Stella, but they were and the movie ends up in bitter syrup. One more cliché.
This another masterpiece by the guy who brought us Three O'Clock High. Need I say more? This is a movie about a guy who's not all that likeable doing a lot of things that aren't that likeable until the end when he makes you wonder if perhaps you've judged him too soon.