Clean (2004/I)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Writer:

Olivier Assayas (writer)

Release Date:

1 September 2004 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Tagline:

When you don't have a choice, you change.

Plot:

The former successful forty-two years old rock star Lee Hauser is decadent and his friends blame his...

Plot Keywords:

Paris | London | Prison | Paris France | London England

Awards:

2 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Maggie Cheung	...	Emily Wang
Nick Nolte	...	Albrecht Hauser
Béatrice Dalle	...	Elena
Jeanne Balibar	...	Irene Paolini
Don McKellar	...	Vernon
Martha Henry	...	Rosemary Hauser
James Johnston	...	Lee Hauser
James Dennis	...	Jay
Rémi Martin	...	Jean-Pierre
Laetitia Spigarelli	...	Sandrine
Arnaud Churin	...	Store Manager
Man Kit Cheung	...	Restaurant Owner
Kurtys Kidd	...	Detective
Shaun Austin-Olsen	...	Record Label Owner
Jodi Crawford	...	Gloria

MPAA:

Rated R for drug content, language and brief nudity.

Runtime:

111 min | France:110 min | USA:90 min | Argentina:110 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

Country:

Canada | France | UK

Language:

French | English | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby SR

Certification:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Australia:M | Argentina:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | Brazil:14

Filming Locations:

Gare du Nord, Paris 10, Paris, France

Company:

Rectangle Productions

Trivia:

Lead actress Maggie Cheung and director Olivier Assayas were already divorced when they made this movie.

Movie Connections:

References Barb Wire (1996)

Soundtrack:

Starfucker

Stylish, moodily entertaining, with verisimilitude.

Just saw this on Sundance Channel and was quietly but firmly impressed. ALL performances were top notch, yes. even the little boy's. Nick Nolte is the damned finest actor of his generation probably and Miss Cheung is terrific in her French and English speaking role. I admit to some ignorance of her career, but from my limited perspective, seeing her performances botched by inscrutable kung fu editing and bad subtitling, it was almost a revelation to see her subdued and so movingly...human. (Same to be said for her contemporary Michelle Yeoh, by the way, in her non-Hong Kong stuff.) I'm a sucker for style and this film has some. Points for incidental 70's Brian Eno music snippets.

I'm not a recovery expert and thusly do not subscribe to strict 12 step voodoo dogma, so I believed this character.