Norah Jones goes Hollywood in Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, which will kick off Cannes this year:

I got a call that this filmmaker, Wong Kar Wai, wanted to meet with me. So, O.K., I’ll have lunch with him, because I thought he wanted music. Then he asked me if I wanted to be in a movie… I thought it was a little indie movie. All of a sudden, it was Natalie Portman, Rachel Weisz, David Strathairn and Jude Law, and it’s like, “Oh, crap, what’d I get myself into?” [Link]

Wong Kar Wai likes to use musicians… in his roles… E.g. Faye Wong in Chungking Express… [and] in 2046. [Link]

What the flick is about:

A young woman (Jones) takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love… [Link]

The filmmaker is trying something different this time:

… it is Wong’s first film in English… it wasn’t shot by Wong’s longtime collaborator Christopher Doyle; it doesn’t feature at least a cameo from Tony Leung… [Link]

The main attraction [on the draft poster] is the prominence of Rachel Weisz, who is being capitalized on for her recent Oscar win. Six years after being left out of the main poster for Enemy at the Gates, the actress has apparently become a bigger attraction than Jude Law… Meanwhile, Norah Jones, who is actually Blueberry’s star, is barely seen in the lower left… [Link]

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