Mrs. Parker und ihr lasterhafter Kreis (1994)

Mrs. Parker und ihr lasterhafter Kreis: Directed by Alan Rudolph. With Jennifer Jason Leigh, Campbell Scott, Matthew Broderick, Peter Gallagher. Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

“I think that this film was meant to be realist and naturalistic. However,there is the reality that this is an entertainment, and the audience has to hear and understand the lines. Supervigilance is required to do this in this movie. Not only does JJLu0026#39;s imitation of Dorothy Parkeru0026#39;s speech affectations make the speech and musing of the main character difficult to understand, but the inclusion of background noise, overlapping dialog, and frequent muttering and mumbling of the performers make every character difficult to even hear, much less understand.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSince so much of this movie is about legendary people mouthing famous aphorisms, it is frustrating to only hear snippets of their lines. I suppose the idea was to toss these famous lines away to add naturalism. However, without spotlighting the conversations of the legendary characters, however contrived this might be performed, this is just a very sad movie about a bitter, unhappy, self-destructive, unproductive writer. Not very easy to watch nor very interesting.”