The store’s always-packed outdoor tables along Santa Monica Blvd and Westmount Dr represent the first leg of the runway, where well-coiffed patrons (many fresh from the gym) are evaluated on presentation and form… and occasionally rewarded with nods or smiles of approval. Better known as “Gaybucks” to locals, this Starbucks location is as much a catwalk as it is a coffee house. Marceau remains an arresting screen presence, but that’s severely tested by Azuelos’ inane, meandering and trite tale of love, loss and closure, wrapped in a female wish fulfillment fantasy.Coffee? Tea? Or the hunk in the white tee? At this popular West Hollywood outpost, all of the above are on the menu. Luka’s high-end apartment and cherry condition 1966 Mustang convertible make one wonder about bartender salaries in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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The entire affair seems researched by watching lesser Hollywood films and sitcoms. The running theme of these memories as they work their way into the screenplay within the screenplay is a life of longing for unfulfilled needs, scars Lisa made a decision to not pass on to her own kids, whom “I created to make sure someone loves me on this planet,” with much of what she encounters in LaLa Land being a potential trigger - “reunions,” etc.Įvery so often, Lisa talks about Los Angeles, the movies and the cinematic landmarks of her life that live on there - “The Way We Were” to “The Big Lebowski.”Īzuelos renders all this in sweeping strokes of randomness - Lisa breaking her “no sex on the first date” rule, Luka living out some sort of ’80s gay cliche - hookups that can’t recall ever meeting him - mixed with modern LA gay stereotypes (Luka’s ex has married and has a child with his new partner). These outings, often connecting to the discos and disco of her youth, prompt flashbacks to the wounds of childhood - her “playboy” and out of his depth (not married to Mom) dad, Julien ( Hubert Benhamdine), whom she nicknames “Judas,” her mother’s “new life” and new family pushing Lisa further into the background.
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The dates begin, a middling string of older-men-pretending-to-be-young and one dedicated cougar hunter ( Colin Woodell) who insists a dating app can lead to something permanent and meaningful. Lisa arrives in LA just as her mother ( Sophie Verbeeck) takes a terminal turn for the worse back in France, “pissing me off to the end,” the daughter grumps (in French, with English subtitles).īut getting past that, her already-in-LA gay bartender pal Luka ( Djanis Bouzyan) puts her on dating apps, drops her age from 50 to “43” and invites direct messages by the hundreds, most of them on the sliding scale of lascivious to crude. It’s a dry, somewhat vapid “French sophisticate in LA” dramedy about parenting, love, age and finding closure as the heroine of your own story.Īnd if writer-director Lisa Azuelos, who teamed with Marceau for the equally empty “LOL” 15 years ago, doesn’t utterly waste our time and Marceau’s, that’s only because Marceau doesn’t let her. “I Love America” makes a decent 50something showcase for the almost-ageless Sophie Marceau (“Braveheart,” “The World is Not Enough”) and pretty much nothing else. And as she’s dating again, she’s writing (in voice over) an autobiographical screenplay about her neglectful, self-absorbed “diva” mother who left her in a small boarding school as a child, deliberately letting the child Lisa think it was something she did that caused this first of many abandonments.
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A Frenchwoman of a certain age considers the question from the US Customs officer at LAX, and speaks her mind.Īnd so she sort of does, 50 and “putting herself out back there” with the guidance of that Everywoman’s LA accessory, the gay BFF.