Lee Eisenberg
From what I've seen of Peter Weir's movies, he often likes to focus on cultures and historical events. "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "The Last Wave", "Gallipoli", "The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Witness" are examples. The rom-com "Green Card" is an unusual movie for him. It's an enjoyable movie. My favorite scene is when Georges attends the party with Bronte and has an awkward experience with the piano.There's nothing special about the plot, but it's an OK movie. As to the issue of immigration, I guess that it should remind everyone that immigrants are what built this country.
SnoopyStyle
Bronte Parrish (Andie MacDowell) is marrying George Faure (Gérard Depardieu) in a marriage of convenience set up by Anton. They never met before and hope never to see again. She's a horticulturist in a New York gardening group working with inner city locals to build gardens. She's desperate for the perfect apartment with its own greenhouse but the board is only willing to rent to a married couple. She tells them that her husband is researching drumming in Africa. She's dating her coworker Phil. George is a music composer and needs the Green Card marriage to stay. Immigration officers Gorsky and Sheehan come to investigate. George and Bronte need to get their act together. They run into her old friend Lauren Adler (Bebe Neuwirth) whose parents are selling their place and possibly donating their rare plants.Writer/director Peter Weir doesn't really do rom-coms. The comedy is rather light and neither leads are big comedians. It takes a long time before the romance takes off. He's got a volcanic anger bubbling under the surface and she's an odd-bird obsessed about plants. The story needs to force them together earlier in the movie. There is a fine romance for these two clashing personalities. She's ice and he's fire. Together, they turn into quite a stormy romance.
namashi_1
Maverick Filmmaker Peter Weir's 'Green Card' is A Great Entertainer, that mixes Humor & Romance, Efficently. Also, the Performances by its Protagonists are charming! 'Green Card' Synopsis: A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.Peter Weir is a SUPEMELY Talented Storyteller, he's made Fantastic Films throughout his thriving career & 'Green Card' is Amongst his Most Accomplished Works to date. As mentioned before, A Great Entertainer, that mixes Humor & Romance, Efficiently! Weir's Oscar-Nominated Original Screenplay is delightful, so is his Direction. Cinematography, Editing & Art Design, are passable.Performance-Wise: Gérard Depardieu & Andie MacDowell deliver Charming Performances. Both of the talented actors also share a Striking On-Screen Chemistry from Start to End.On the whole, 'Green Card' is a must watch.
leplatypus
A movie isn't never as much great as it can speak personally. This movie does it for me and I'm lucky. This review is thus very subjective but it comes from the heart....First, it is a rare movie in which I feel my favorite town, New York as my neighborhood. The town really appears as an endless collection of big cubic buildings, but under the soft menace of the green invasion (trees, garden,...). All the roof scenes are memorable...Then, McDowell plays an almost introvert woman in contrast to the French extraversion of Depardieu. Sure, being French, I support our national icon, who is particularly in his turf here, but I was more over captivated by the development of the Bronte character and her feelings. From her initial motivation, then indifference to exasperation and finally complicity & deep devotion, it was a remarkable evolution to behold and understand.Finally, there's also a lot of subtext & subtlety here and it's great for the brain: I mean some things talks to our unconscious and the connection isn't immediate. For example, think how Africa is the main background: the emigration subject, the Afrika bar, the drums, the safari life ... There's also the sweet translation from Green Card to Green House, and the role of ecology... Like I already said, the green tries to grow in every free space left from the rock buildings, which is a poetic metaphor for the emigration...So, a great romantic story in a wonderful setting & which leaves many doors to open...
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