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De-Lovely
(Directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Kevin
Kline, Jonathan Pryce and Ashley Judd)
Kevin
Kline, as an aging Cole Porter, sits alone in his New York apartment.
He is visited by a stranger, Gabe (Jonathan Pryce), who, like the
Ghost of Christmas Past, guides Porter through a musical revue based
on his life.
Instantly,
a structure is formed and the couple can play with the real and
the imaginary via the not always reliable route of memory.
The
primary theme revisited here is the platonic relationship the homosexual
Porter had with his wife Linda, played with poise by Ashley Judd.
Yet
for all the talk and implications of sex outside the marital bed,
De-Lovely is a strangely dispassionate affair.
rarefied
On
her death bed Linda reminds Porter that their time together was
not always good.
But
the dark undertones of her loneliness and self-sacrifice as his
muse-cum-spouse don't cut much ice because the film remains rarefied
and sexless.
At
least there are glorious songs, energetically warbled by a host
of modern pop stars, to keep us enthralled.
Although
singers like Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Mick Hucknall, Elvis
Costello, Diana Krall, Nathalie Cole, and the truly awful Robbie
Williams seem to sit there like out of date product placement.
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