Broken English

Zoe R. Cassavetes
USA
2006

Most people are together just so they are not alone. But some people want magic. I think you are one of those people.

96", 35mm
Color, English – French

about the film

Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) is a thirty-something Manhattan resident who is cynical about love and relationships. She plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can’t help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey’s “perfect marriage”. It doesn’t help that her overbearing mother takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she’s still unattached. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living. Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes, She finds herself in Paris looking to break old patterns. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.

about the director

Zoe R. Cassavetes was born in 1970 in Los Angeles. She was an actress in movies such as Ted&Venus (1991), Noises Off (1992), The Thing Called Love (1993), and was assistant director for Mascara in 1999. Broken English is her first feature film.

awards

2007 Moscow Film Festival: Best Director Nominee
Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize Nominee for Best Director
Philadelphia, San Francisco, Cannes, Seattle, Bangkok Gijon

screenings

February 15 Friday, 10:00 PM AFM Budak Caddebostan

February 18 Monday, 7:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2

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