Broken Poet

As much as I enjoyed the recent film a star is born what I enjoyed about this film is that it told the story of another side of rockstardom - a once-famous musician Who rejects fame, riches and celebrity. Great evocative shots of Paris!

I love this story of life imitating art - the star and writer (and consummate musician and journeyman) wrote the story on which the film is based in early 80s -- then ended up moving to Paris. Also starring ever enchanting Paris.

I sought this out after becoming a fan of Elliot Murphy's music. This review has nothing to do with him. In fact, had to stop watching before he showed up. This is one of the worst movies I have ever tried to watch. The pacing, dialogue acting are horrid. There is a scene near the beginning of the main character, a journalist, walking from her NYC apartment to the offices of Rolling Stone magazine. And it seems like it is shot in real time. It takes FOREVER. The first 20 minutes are filled with shots like that. Pointless and seemingly unending.

It's as if someone gave a 13 year old a couple of million dollars and said, here kid, make a movie. Somehow, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa show up. And are awful. There is some good Elliot Murphy music, but you're better off just putting on a record.

Terrible, stilted dialogue, still acting and trite references throughout!

I am really not sure which is worse - The writing, or the acting! It is really not much of a film... and it certainly isn't very engaging! I didn't really like it! I thought it was pretty boring actually