{"id":5502,"date":"2010-12-09T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2012-06-08T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:44:47","slug":"wicker-park-starring-josh-hartnett-diane-kruger-rose-byrne-matthew-lillard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinartarhan.com\/blog\/wicker-park-starring-josh-hartnett-diane-kruger-rose-byrne-matthew-lillard\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicker Park starring Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Rose Byrne & Matthew Lillard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wicker Park starring Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Rose Byrne & Matthew Lillard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Plot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matthew (Josh Hartnett<\/a>) has a promising career in advertising and a beautiful girlfriend named Rebecca (Jessica Par\u00e9). However he is unsure about proposing, as deep down, he has never gotten over the love of his life, Lisa (Diane Kruger<\/a>). She has left him without saying anything 2 years ago. When he thinks he saw her at a restaurant, he decides to ditch his business trip and look for her. The clues take him to a hotel and then an apartment. There he gets a real surprise, because the woman living there isn\u2019t his Lisa but a brunette who claims that her name is Lisa (Rose Byrne<\/a>). She also happens to be wearing Lisa\u2019s clothes and shoes\u2026<\/p>\n

Matt has also run into his old friend Luke (Matthew Lillard) who runs a shoe shop and knows what Lisa meant to him. But he thinks that Matt\u2019s quest for Lisa is crazy and he is more concerned with his love life. Despite pretending to be a player, he is actually a nice and decent guy with a huge crush on Alex, a theater actress. Alex\u2019s behavior is highly unpredictable for reasons Luke might never find out. Alex can be the key to everything mysterious about Lisa\u2019s disappearance. But will Matt be able to find out?<\/p>\n

Wicker Park is a really solid mystery\/romance. It is just different. It is very emotional and revolves around the 4 characters, especially Matthew, Alex and Lisa. It is a gripping drama romance with some thriller-like elements and its characters are just deliciously flawed. All of the main characters make bad choices, act stupidly and\/or naively and\/or selfishly. They also have redeeming qualities that make us feel for them. The music is really good (feat. Stereophonics, Coldplay, The White Stripes and more). \u00a0I\u2019d say that it is one of those rare romance movies where cynics and romantics will both have a good time.<\/p>\n

The bad things? Oh, the characters are sometimes so monumentally stupid that it makes you want to smack them. And there is this whole string of (bad) coincidences that don\u2019t always feel natural. And Matt is the right guy for only Lisa. For any other girl, he is one of the worst choices. So this is not a romance film where I will just talk about how unrealistically awesome the protagonist is. Because he is a very real character. So yes, the movie has its flaws but character development and a decent dose of realism are definitely not among them.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, the script is not technically original as It is based on the 1996 French film L\u2019 Appartment<\/a> starring Star Romane Bohringer, Vincent Cassel<\/a>, Jean-Philippe \u00c9coffey and Monica Belluci<\/a>. It was written & directed by Gilles Mimount.<\/p>\n

This 2004 American version was written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Paul McGuigan (Push, Lucky Number Slevin). I\u2019ll see the original French film but if you haven\u2019t already seen it, this version is pretty good.<\/p>\n

Currently rated 6.8 on IMDB. L\u2019 Appartement is rated 7.6. For Wicker Park, my vote is a solid 7, and in some aspects even 7.5.<\/p>\n

Fun note: <\/strong>Vincent Cassel and Monica Belluci<\/a>, the two starring actors of L\u2019 Appartement,got married in 1999, 3 years after the making of the film. They have 2 kids together.<\/p>\n

Other Diane Kruger Movies<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The Hunting Party starring Richard Gere, Jesse Eisenberg & Terrence Howard. Feat. Kruger<\/a><\/h5>\n
Copying Beethoven starring Diane Kruger & Ed Harris<\/a><\/h5>\n
Other Josh Hartnett Films and Posts<\/strong><\/h5>\n
40 Days and 40 Nights starring Josh Hartnett & Shannyn Sossamon<\/a><\/h5>\n
Hollywood\u2019s Tall Actors feat. Hartnett, Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds& more<\/a><\/h5>\n
Rose Byrne<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Damages TV Show Review \u2013 starring Rose Byrne and Glenn Close<\/a><\/h5>\n
Adam starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne<\/a><\/h5>\n

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