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Directed by:
Henry Jaglom  (pictured)
Written by:
Henry Jaglom and Victoria Foyt
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| Released: |
1998 |
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DRAMA
SO BAD
ROMANCE
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
C |
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| Length: |
116 |
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An annoying American (Victoria Foyt) agonises whether or not to leave her uncreative but safe American fiance (Michael Brandon) for a married English artist (Stephen Dillane) with whom she falls in love at first sight, even though he has an unfortunate tendency to start spouting Kierkegaarde in bed. |
Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| A relationships drama which features perhaps the most irritating heroine of all time in Dana (played by Jaglom’s co-writer and spouse, Victoria Foyt). Deja Vu is not worth seeing once. It’s unendurable, a series of ludicrously pretentious, pseudo-philosophical monologues and self-absorbed, repetitive conversations which would have been more sensibly carried on in the privacy of a psychoanalyst’s consulting room. Sample whine: “I just wanna feel connected to a part of me that feels more timeless, you know?” The plot owes a certain amount to Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter, but relies so heavily on chance encounters that it’s embarrassing. Deja Vu mainly resembles a Woody Allen movie from which every vestige of humour and intelligence has been removed. Unaccountably, many American critics thought this movie profound; the British ones gave it the drubbing it so richly deserved. | |
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