De-Lovely (2004)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 155
Fresh: 74 | Rotten: 81
Musical numbers save movie from cliches.
Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 24
Musical numbers save movie from cliches.
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The public and private lives of famed songwriter Cole Porter are both explored in this musical drama, in which the aging Porter (played by Kevin Kline) looks back on his life while watching a rehearsal of a stage musical based on his story. As Porter compares notes on the play with director Gabe (Jonathan Pryce), he shares thoughts on his rise to fame in the mid-'20s, writing witty and sophisticated tunes for a string of successful Broadway musicals. Porter seemed to be living a charmed life
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Kevin Kline
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Ashley Judd
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Jonathan Pryce
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Kevin McNally
Gerald Murphy -
Alan Corduner
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Sandra Nelson
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Keith Allen
Irving Berlin -
James Wilby
Edward Thomas -
Kevin Mckidd
Bobby Reed -
Richard Dillane
Bill Wrather -
Edward Baker-Duly
Boris Kochno -
Robbie Williams
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Leopold Lemarchand
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Elvis Costello
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Alanis Morissette
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John Barrowman
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Caroline O'Connor
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Sheryl Crow
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Mick Hucknall
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Diana Krall
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Vivian Green
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Lara Fabian
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Mario Frangoulis
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Natalie Cole
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Angie Hill
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Peter Polycarpou
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All Critics (160) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (76) | Rotten (83) | DVD (21)
The results ... are staid, with re-creations of Paris in the Jazz Age and Hollywood in its Golden Age that are like waxworks in motion.
Top CriticIt is stiff, lifeless and incomprehensibly dull.
A wildly uneven musical biography of Cole Porter.
Porter's songs keep much the film afloat when, otherwise, it would have sunk. No matter how turgid or murky the movie becomes, when the music starts, you're flying.
Not inept enough to make the composer spin in his grave ... but not insightful or clever enough to please the old boy, either.
Entertaining. With more than 30 Cole Porter songs and an accomplished cast, how can it not be?
Unfortunately, the film's post-modern staginess assists in keeping Porter endlessly at arm's length. [Blu-ray]
Winkler indulges a large amount of screentime detailing these sexual leanings and complications, which disrupts the picture's balance between wannabe musical and straight up bio-pic.
The music is de-lovely, but not much else is.
More imagination than inquiry, this cautiously reverential tale reaches for aesthetic pleasure and emotion over insight.
More imagination than inquiry, this cautiously reverential tale reaches for aesthetic pleasure and emotion over insight.
If you ignore the plot and just approach the flick as nothing more than a 21st century update of a Busby Berkeley-style musical, you will not be disappointed.
Performances crackling with an enthusiasm that indicates how much Porter's work continues to be loved and respected.
Elegante e esteticamente admirável, este musical é um pouco mais longo do que deveria, mas as belas canções e os complexos planos concebidos por Winker acabam compensando.
The production numbers recap Porter's life using his own music. The concept is nothing if not original but it's the execution that causes the greatest strife.
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