A Parker Posey vehicle from 2007 explores relationships from the point of view of a thirty-something single woman. Posey plays Nora Wilder, a successful young manager working at an upscale hotel in New York who can't seem to settle into a lasting relationship. A series of one night stands, mother initiated blind dates and evenings home alone put her into a funk she is slowly beginning to accept as her reality. Until she meets Julien. The two hit it off and seem to finally have some chemistry, when Julien returns to France leaving Nora unable to drop her increasingly pathetic life to follow him. While this is a bit old school in the expectation that Nora will drop everything for love (clearly Julien can't change his plans to stay in New York), Posey does an excellent job of navigating the post-perfect-man waters, including both the crisis-of-confidence and change-your-life-priorities decisions that follow. A sweet movie that takes the viewer along on a well trodden journey that, while not exactly feeling like a new approach, never actually feels well trodden.
3 stars (out of 5)
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