BROKEN ENGLISH

Year: 2007
USA: Magnolia Pictures
Cast: Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo, Gena Rowlands, Melvil Poupaud, Justin Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich, Tim Guinee, James McCaffrey, Josh Hamilton, Bernadette Lafont, Michael Panes, Dana Ivey, William Wise, Caitlin Keats, Russei Steinberg, Santo Fazio, Michael Kelly, Jonathan Castro, John Wernke, Phyllis Somerville, Laurent Pons,Thierry Hancisse, Yarol Poupaud, Sebastien Chenut, Karim Gassama, Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Maud Geffray
Director: Zoe Cassavetes
Country: USA
USA: 93 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some sexual content, brief drug use and language
USA Release Date: 22 June 2007 (Limited Release - New York and Los Angeles)

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Synopsis

Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes. Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey's (Drea De Matteo) "perfect marriage. Nor does it help that her overbearing mother (Gena Rowlands) takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she's still unattached.

After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living. Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes. She finds herself in Paris looking to break old patterns. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.