My Blueberry Nights (2007)

Director: Wong Kar Wai
Starring: Norah Jones, Jude Law, Rachel Weiz & Natalie Portman
Length: 90 mins

"At the end of every night, the cheesecake and the apple pie are always completely gone, the peach cobbler and the chocolate mousse cake are nearly finished, but there's always a whole blueberry pie left untouched."

"So what's wrong with the blueberry pie?"

"There's nothing wrong with the blueberry pie, just people make other choices. You can't blame the blueberry pie, it's just... no one wants it."

But shrugging off the rejection of a loved one is not as simple as that, is it? So Elizabeth, our heroine, goes on a road trip from New York, to Memphis, Las Vegas and then back to New York after having her heart broken. At each stop she meets people whose stories illustrate the brittle, painful side of love - the cafe owner who is still waiting for the woman who walked out his life to come back, the alcoholic cop and his beautiful wife who yearns to be freed from her intense love-hate relationship but is terribly torn by the price of her freedom, and finally the hard, confident gambler who has her carefully-constructed front torn down by the finality of death.

Easily the most accessible of Kar Wai's films, My Blueberry Nights is like the dessert it features - sweet, visually appealing and a satisfying fix. And as the movie ends on a hopeful note with Lizzie back in the little New York cafe she started out from, you can't help but believe in second chances.

Watched: Wednesday, 27 March