Paris Blues
by Martin Ritt
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Actor: Diahann Carroll, Joanne Woodward, Louis Armstrong, Paul Newman, Sidney PoitierDirector: Martin Ritt
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog; French (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: Pleasant but uninvolving drama
Summary: 3 Stars
Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier play US expatriates ,both jazz musicians,living and working in Paris .Newman is in Paris because he feels more able to grow musically in a European environment while Poitier is escaping racial prejudice in the US .They meet two US tourists and pair off together ,Newman with Joanne Woodward and Poityier with Diahann Carroll .Cue much -frankly rather dull-discourse between the couples in bars ,cafes etc and frequent leisurely perambulations around the city in which they talk(my how they do talk!)about life ,love and the whole damned thing!Carroll devotes much time to trying to persuade Poitier to return to America,while woodward does the same with Newman.
The problem for me with this movis is twofold-the dull maundering script by Jack Sher ,Irene Kamp and Walter Bernstein which tries to put a social consciousnes spin on what is pretty standard Hollywood material ;and Martin Ritt's direction.It almost seems as if he said "okay guys we are in Paris-let's do a Nouvelle Vague" movie -you know Truffaut and those cats ".The result is a movie with gestures to a European sensibility -and using a local crew -but one which is hafway between Hollywood and the Left Bank.
Too often scenes go nowhere and the movie meanders rather than moves with a sense of purpose .On the plus side it is well acted all round ,the Ellington score is a delight and the presence of jazz luminaries like Satchmo give proceedings a shot in the arm when the action starts to sag .This will I suspect appeal mostly to jazz lovers and Francophiles I applaud its jazz theme but as a movie I found it a bit lacking in grit.
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