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Choose Me

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Simply, Choose Me is an edgily romantic, iconic, moodily hilarious, foolhardy movie of a movie by one of the true heirs of Michael Powell. Rudolph's use of colour, textures, the unpredictable, and a literate script make for a unique roundabout. Bujold is a treasure, Warren should be far better-known, and Carradine - well, my favourite line in the movie:
'No, I'm the same. The town's different.'
Love at large, indeed.
Rudolph doesn't always get it spot-on, but this and Trouble in Mind and Equinox is 3 movies better than some directors of greater renown.
Choose it!

Choose Me....where do I begin. This movie oozes chemistry, passion, sexuality and how lives can change through a single encounter. I can easily watch it over and over. The music is exceptional, you truly feel the connection between the song lyrics and the characters. I saw another review that mentioned actors in their prime. Watch Leslie Ann Warrens movies now, she project that same sexual energy as she did then. I identify with each character. It was well written and truly captured the moment. I loved the clothes, the music, the writing. This movie is wonderful. I recommend it, and watch it constantly.

This is one of my all-time favorites, along with Nashville, Exotica, and Kieslowski's Blue. My ultimate romantic movie, in a beautiful but sordid way. R.D. Chong is wooden, but doesn't detract from the movie. The biblical allusions escaped me at first (Eve's bar, Adams street, ultimate redemption ...), but this is a heartfelt paean to true, less-than-sane, love. Is Mickey, the male protagonist, crazy? Does it matter? I saw this at least 6 times the year it opened at a small art-house theater, and I watch it time and time again without tiring of it's hopeless, dreamlike, romanticism. Mickey is a man, wandered off from an insane asylum, searching for a lasting taste of a past love that he can't recapture or redeem. He is willing to be a partner for each of three beautiful but flawed women--but who is willing to take a chance on him? Beautiful.

'Choose Me' is an odd little movie, set in a stylized (and stylish), totally libidinous after hours kind of twilight, even though some scenes take place in the day. The onscreen music is after hours jazz, and the soundtrack underneath uses songs of Teddy Pendergrass in sometimes shockingly effective, nearly subliminal ways. The complex plot, which I leave to others to describe, deals with the curious interface between love and lust in a witty, ironic way. Keith Carradine is compelling as the mysterious stranger who is all things to all the women in the film. Bujold does a nearly dual role as radio talk show host Nancy Love and her daytime alter ego, Ann. It's a lot of fun, as well as something to give you pause as you pursue your desires.

Leslie Ann Warren! Gorgeous and so so so talented! She lights up the screen with her brilliant beautiful smile, and backs everything up with deep talent.

Genevieve Bujold, another beauty, in a different way, equally talented...the changes she goes through as she learns about her own sexuality.

Keith Carredine- Not just an interesting and photogenic face with a dancers body... he too has the acting skill to convey the complexity of his character and how despite how he screws so many things up, his character;s heart wants love...

THe other actors and actresses... Rae Dawn Chong... excellent.

It is a very "80's" style movie, stylistic and somewhat strange... characters intermingling and intersecting... a very unique story about people;s desires to connect.

I dont want to sit and rehash the plot line, suffice to say it is a terrific artistic movie and well worth watching more than once.

The music by the incredible Teddy Pendergrass so perfectly outlines the story too. His songs play a huge part of the movie's structure...

This is one of the best films ever made, solidly in my top 100. Look at the director, the cast, the strength of this great film, and then look at the ton of garbage being released every week on DVD, and ask yourself why "Trouble in Mind" and "Welcome to LA" are missing. And for that matter, note that there are only 11 reviews posted here for this film. An puzzling injustice.

This film puts the viewer in a different world with a wonderful hero (Keith Carridine in his prime). Alan Rudolph did a fantastic job with great performances by Rea Dong Chong, Lesley Anne Warran. This is a must see.

A no mainstream entertainment with interesting and fine dialogues gives as result a fascinating portrait of those eighties. Atmospheric drama around the banality, frivolity and naïve domain of the life 's theory in this captivating story around a classic triangle affair.

All the cast was splendid: From the disturbed Genevieve Bujold, the easy going life of Leslie Ann Warren and the mysterious and elusive male character played by Keith Carradine.

I must acknowledge that Alan Rudolph made me think he would climb the highest peaks after The Moderns, but evidently, something happened on the road.

Mickey (Keith Carradine) is one of my favorite characters in any movie. This movie combines characters that you'll remember, a script with brilliant, witty quotable lines, an intricate plot that keeps all the characters from knowing what is really going on but at the same time not confusing the audience, and a wonderful ambiguous ending.

I saw this film for the first time in 1984, and now following 15 to 20 viewings, I'm still astounded by the integral cinematic elements, which makes it quite the sleeping beauty that it truly is. Director Alan Rudolph wrote the screenplay, creating unique yet robust characters, whose interplay is as illustrious as a fine tuned baby grand. Lesley Ann Warren's "Eve" is absolutely scintillating as a vulnerable woman who succeeds in capturing everything she wants without genuine fulfillment. Genevieve Bujold issues a brilliant multi-faceted performance as both "Nancy" and "Ann". She plays a radio psychologist who counsels love's bewildered souls, while hiding beneath inherit conflict. Carradine is superb and uncanny with his ability to portray someone who is provocatively disturbed yet intrinsically sincere. Not one of the aforementioned three possesses the ability to balance the scales of love. This film will forever glisten in my Top Ten film adoration; authorizing a quivering for more equivocal chaos.