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DESPARATELY SEEKING "GAUDI", 26 avril 2003
Auteur : Jerome Wilson (jjw8) de Greenbelt, MD

Somebody will have to explain to me why this movie hasn't gotten more recognition. It is an absolutely delightful, wacky comedy, easily the best thing Susan Seidelman has done since "Desparately Seeking Susan". Judy Davis is great as usual as the people-avoiding translator who gets involved in a very unique domestic squabble and Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor and Juliette Lewis are wonderful as the dramatis personae in said squabble (which turns out to be much weirder than it first seems). Harden's curvy, campy Frankie is especially memorable. It's a great film that makes strong points about the unpredictable nature of love without preaching and setting it in the Gaudi-designed wonderland of Barcelona makes it even more special. If anybody in America had seen this movie, it would have gotten raves from a lot of film critics. Certainly it's funnier and warmer than 99% of the well-known romantic comedies that have played in the States lately.

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Extremely Enjoyable film!, 17 février 2003

Auteur : John Glasscock de Bloomington, IN

From the opening credits, a marvelous montage of organic elements rendered in a very Gaudi-esque style, I had a sense that this would be a quirky and fun film. I was not disappointed. If you have ever lived as an expatriate, you will immediately identify with the Judy Davis character. The terrific soundtrack captures the lure of Catalonia, especially the signature tune, "Sway (Quien Sera)" written by Norman Gimbel and Pablo Beltran Ruiz and sung by Dean Martin.

There is no nudity or sex in this film and the fact that the characters aren't hetero is only a plot device and is not otherwise significant. Surprisingly, Juliette Lewis is the weakest performer of the entire cast. Extremely enjoyable!

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A REAL GEM OF A MOVIE, 5 novembre 2002

Auteur : flimbuff (flimbuff@aol.com) de PHILADELPHIA, PA

Wonderfully, funny satire of gender bending with only a few slow parts when the screenwriter forgets we don't really need any serious moralizing in this kind of film.

Our plot has Judy Davis, as Cassandra, a sort of almost middle aged, expatriot writer living in Spain trying to finish her novel. She is hired by Frankie, a very sexy deserted wife, to track down her missing daughter because of her bilingual skills.

Things aren't exactly what they seem and we find that Frankie is actually the transsexual father of the missing child who is now living with her natural mother Ben, a lesbian, who is engaged in a 'menage a trois' with her bisexual lover Hamilton and 'their lover' April, wonderfully played by Juliette Lewis.

The confusion makes for some very funny lines that are so well played that the situation seems almost natural. The screenwriter goes somewhat adrift later on with some totally unnecessary reflections by Cassandra, who apparently has sexual identity problems of her own, but the film as a whole is just wonderfully refreshing when compared to most of today's "statement" films. Good soundtrack too.

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Fabulous film!!, 7 juin 2005

Auteur : Reverend_Summerisle de Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.

Judy Davis stars as Cassandra Reilly, an American translator living and working in Barcelona, currently on interpreting a Spanish bestseller. One morning she is approached by the mysterious Frankie Stevens (Marcia Gay Harden) a woman offering her a large sum of money in exchange for finding her husband. Cassandra agrees but soon regrets upon finding herself in a wacky, gender-bending adventure …

It's a shame that this asterpiece isn't more famous – I would like to emphasize to the readers it is really worth seeing! It's funny and mysterious and has the most terrific selection of music – both English and Spanish. Not to mention a younger, hippie and blonde Juliette Lewis, before she moved on to be a rock-singer! María Barranco makes her debut in American films, playing Carmen – Cassandra's noisy but funny landlady who will one minute be jabbering in English before swapping to Spanish! A very funny actress that leads the humour in the film. Not to mention the beauty – especially in the nightclub scene, when she dances to that catchy Spanish, dance song.

On Lily Taylor – I would comment on her role in detail but don't want to give any spoilers out – but she too is superb along with Courtney Jines and Christopher Bowen.

One last thing – those of you struggling to get hold of a copy, its not sold in the UK, where I live, but it can be ordered off Amazon.com for not much and play on the correct region DVD – like the one I've got.

Fabulous film!!

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Hilarious farce/ screwball comedy with great turns by Judi Davis and Marcia Gay Harden, 26 janvier 2004

Auteur : HereInVA (HereInVA@Yahoo.com) de Virginia, USA

Judi Davis is wonderful in this film as she is in all of her movies. I saw this on ShowTime and it had 3 stars, but I would have watched it just to see Judi Davis. I have never seen Judi Davis in a comedy before, but to see this rather intense woman react when she is thrown into a mix of crazy people is wonderful.

I WAS turned off by the description in the movie guide: a woman searches for her crossdressing husband -- yet another transvestite. But this script throws a curve in the form of Marcia Gay Harden whom I had never seen in a film before. I won't tell you just WHO this distressed wife in search of a renegade husband really is, but Harden is hysterical.

To analyze this farce would destroy the the magical journey it takes you on. All the actors are just great and all are playing against type.

I have seen about 20 movies in the past month, and this one stands in a class of its own.

I give it a ten for making me laugh, and a ten for a crazy cast of characters.

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Gender Bender, 26 août 2004

Auteur : jotix100 de New York

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

Susan Seidelman showed such promise as a film director in her first feature film. It's a wonder Ms Seidelman hasn't been given more opportunities to show her talent, especially directing films about women, which seem to be her specialty.

Spoilers herein****

Having read Barbara Wilson's novel before seeing this film on cable, I couldn't help noticing that Cassandra has been made an American for the cinematic treatment, when in reality she was not. She is not a writer, but a well known translator of Spanish literature. She doesn't rent an apartment from anyone, as she is the guest of her Spanish friend who lets her stay with her when Cassandra is working.

The casting of Judy Davis as Cassandra was perfect. She plays the part as though she's in a daze. She is the center of the story and the one that is drawn into a situation that offers her the role of a private investigator trying to sort out the main conflict.

Marcia Gay Harden as Frankie is perfect. She plays a campy role and makes it her own. The scene at the disco where her real identity is discovered by Cassandra is hysterical. Ms Harden shows her versatility playing the complex character with a lot of panache.

Equally effective is Lili Taylor, as Ben, the former partner of Frankie and a protective mother who is trying to keep Delilah, her young daughter, hidden from the natural father. Juliette Lewis, playing the flighty New Ager April is a delight to watch.

This film deserves a wider audience and Ms Seidelman should direct more often.

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Compelling & good acting (near the end things become a little off kilter however), 31 décembre 2003

Auteur : mrncat de Trenton, NJ

I was curious to see this film because of Judy Davis and Marcia Gay Harden being in it. I was surprised, then, to see Lili Taylor and Juliette Lewis as well. The acting was admirable on all accounts and Judy Davis played a tough and curious literary woman translator that Davis was able to make likable despite the character being repressed and brittle.

The story worked up until near the end when things got a little ludicrous concerning people meeting up and then the child disappearing and it seemed weirdly frantic at some points. For the most part it was an enjoyable film with surprises now and then. I was quite surprised to learn after I looked up some information later about this film that it was directed by Susan Seidelman as I've liked her work in the past. It's good to know she still has a flair for creating films about women who are put in situations where they begin to questions their lives so far and the decisions they've made.

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charming, funny, 31 décembre 2003

Auteur : Charles Herold (cherold) de Etats-Unis

I was surprised to see how much some people here disliked this movie. It's a nice little comedy with good performances, an engaging storyline and a nice pace. I notice a lot of the criticisms are from people who have a very definite idea of how such a movie should be made. Many are comparing it favorably or unfavorably with Almodovar's films, none of which I've seen, and some with the book, which I haven't read. Taken on its own, it's excellent, and Judy Davis is, as always, terrific (I feel in the same way critics want this movie to be a different movie, they want Davis to be a different character - one complained her hair was always a mess, which was sort of the point - but Davis is perfect for the character that the movie is portraying, even if she's not perfect for that movie some people feel should have been made instead).

It's also nice to enjoy something by Seidelman. She started so great and then got so awful that I gave up on her years ago and haven't even seen anything she's done in years except for one or two TV series episodes, but while this is no Smithereens (I don't think she's capable of ever doing that again) it's nearly as good as Desperately Seeking Susan. Perhaps success destroys Seidelman, and she can only make good movies when she's obscure.

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Unconventional cloak and dagger...with no cloaks or daggers, 9 mars 2005

Auteur : Some call me Tim... de Suburbia

Don't look for this title at your local homogeneous family video chain. This sadly overlooked indy film by director Susan Seidelman is best found in an "alternative lifestyle" venue in the nearest large city.

Yes, there are (gasp!) lesbian and trans-gendered characters, but this film does not dwell on their minority status, nor does it minimize them into the caricatures we've come to associate with cinematic depictions of such persons. They're merely caught up in the mystery into which a lonely, embittered, female literary translator finds herself involved.

Revealing much more about the plot would be to water down the viewer's perspective of the unraveling mystery, but I can promise a very satisfying experience for fans of the genre. The only detriment might be toward the end, when things suddenly accelerate, as if the filmmakers realized they were running out of stock, the editors realized they were running overlong, or perhaps both.

And Susan Seidelman certainly does know how to get the best performance out of her locations. As "Desperately Seeking Susan" captures mid-80s lower Manhattan, and "Making Mr. Right" shows Miami at its best, so does "Gaudi Afternoon" display the intricacies of the Spanish city of Barcelona, and the Gaudi-designed apartment building from which it draws its title. Without Madonna sucking the life out of every scene she's in, and without the somewhat contrived plot that bothered science-conscious viewers of "Making Mr. Right," Seidelman finally succeeds in assembling a cast, plot and setting worthy of her talents.

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the prodigal child, 20 août 2004
Auteur : mary cadney de oklahoma city, oklahoma

*** Ce commentaire peut contenir des spoilers ***

Judy Davis plays a woman who left home at age 18 and never returned. Without parental help she became a linguistic scholar, and now lives in Barcelona where she translates Spanish books into English for her employer, an American publisher. To be cultured and independent had been her youthful dream, and she now lives near the beautiful Gaudi cathedral. But she still has resentful thoughts of her mother's lack of culture.

This translator lives in a small apartment. She has one friend in Barcelona, the Spanish woman who is her landlady. The Americans the translator encounters in Barcelona are nothing like her. They are charming, wealthy, amoral and self-indulgent. They each try to use her, each in a different way, to injure the others. One plays on her diligence, another on her loneliness, one on her suspiciousness, another on her pride. But she survives their manipulations, and even emerges with a new sense of herself. She finally decides that these people, who at first glance seem to be everything she in her youth had wanted to be, are not really cultured after all, and they are cruel. The translator decides, at age 36, to return to America in order to pay her uncultured-but-good-hearted mother a visit.

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