CQ (2001)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 25
CQ is a stylish and fun homage to campy 1960s flicks.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 9
CQ is a stylish and fun homage to campy 1960s flicks.
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The feature debut of Roman Coppola (son of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola) centers around an international film crew making a low-budget, Barbarella-like feature in Paris in 1969. The film is called Dragonfly and is being directed by Andrzej (Gérard Depardieu), who wishes to make a revolutionary work rather than the tacky fluff it is becoming. He is soon fired by the film's Italian producer Enzo (Giancarlo Giannini) when he can't produce a satisfactory climactic scene. After briefly
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Cast
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Jeremy Davies
Paul -
Élodie Bouchez
Marlene -
Gérard Depardieu
Andrzej -
Giancarlo Giannini
Enzo -
Massimo Ghini
Fabrizio -
Jason Schwartzman
Felix DeMarco -
Billy Zane
Mr. E. -
John Phillip Law
Chairman -
Silvio Muccino
Pippo -
Dean Stockwell
Dr. Ballard -
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All Critics (79) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (50) | Rotten (27) | DVD (14)
A film that is visually compelling and highly entertaining in an in-jokey sort of way.
Top CriticCoppola's observational and satirical skills are impressive.
The cinema-awareness of CQ is such that it looks as if it was made by and for someone who has seen every movie imaginable but hasn't lived yet.
It's not much of anything, apart from eye candy.
CQ has a modicum of IQ and a dash of style.
A charming, spirited movie for cinephiles, or those who aspire to be.
Coppola gives CQ a sense of style and humor that makes the navel-gazing bearable.
There's nothing much to the film besides its pretty-coolness. Fundamentally it goes nowhere and says nothing.
CQ is so enamored of its own stylish, stylized world that it occasionally seems to forget that someone besides Coppola is watching.
Funny to me, but maybe not for everyone. Hell, I don't care, you're either in the category of the type of person who will like this or you're not. The choice is yours, but anyone pre-disposed to like this type of film will be happy they took the trip.
An attention arousing entree
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Roman Coppola's directorial debut "CQ" is a treat. A fluffy delight.
The movie plays out like a over-budget student film that lacks any of the competence and patience of an experienced director.
CQ will likely appeal to a younger crowd, who may not catch all the cinematic references but will love the mishmash nature of this cinematic stew.
Love alone does not make a film watchable, no matter how much of it there is. Davies and company are up to the task, but the material is weak. Coppola has a lot of ideas; he just needs to find a more coherent, entertaining way of expressing them.
Lumbering, misguided mess
...by attempting to be all things to all people--a comedy, a drama, a treatise on filmmaking, a treatise on self-fulfillment, etc.--it ends up being very little at all.
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It is also a look at the inner workings of the film industry and the struggle of one editor turned director, to create a career making film while not allowing his obsession with that films star (Dragonfly) ruin his relationship with his (Real Life) girlfriend who also happens to be the star of HIS own side project which is based on his personal life.
While the story is a bit convoluted at times...there is enough here (especially visually) to keep fans of film interested (especially fans of Sci-Fi and/or Italian cinema).
And (call me crazy) but I would REALLY like to see the finished Sci-Fi film: "Codename Dragonfly" (think Barbarella meets Austin Powers) in it's entirety. Perhaps as an 'extra' on the DVD?
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A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
REVIEW
Filmmaker Roman Coppola proves to be a chip off the old block (his dad is Francis Ford, duh!) with this sweetly dark comic valentine to foreign films of France and Italy focusing on a struggling film editor/auteur wannabe (Davies in all his squirmy, milquetoasty glory) assigned to a disastrous sci-fi B flick where he winds up being a replacement director and falls deeply in love with his gorgeous starlet (Lindvall, the epitome of sex echoing the leonine good looks of Catherine Deneuve at her start) in the process. Coppola has a keen technical sense incorporating set and production design, costumes, camerawork, editing and low-key acting to make a picture perfect ode to the hurly-burly world of filmmaking then and now. If there is a criticism it is that it is a bit slight in its theme (filmmaker's navel gazing fails to see the big picture: love is all around) yet there's a nice homage to Coppola's relationship with his famous father in the interplay between Davies and his onscreen father Stockwell, an absent-minded businessman, echoing nicely. The title is a play on Seek You = CQ.