A dark but comical glimpse at one day in the breakdown of a marriage.A dark but comical glimpse at one day in the breakdown of a marriage.A dark but comical glimpse at one day in the breakdown of a marriage.
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- (as Emily McDonnell)
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- TriviaThe film originally premiered in the US at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2004. However, because of distribution problems, the film took a long five years to hit the US market (in which it was released internationally on DVD from 2005-2007), finally arriving on DVD in March 2009.
- Goofsthe mayonnaise in Marie's face when she is eating a sandwich. in one shot from behind there is mayonnaise in her face, but in the next shot in front of her the mayonnaise suddenly disappears.
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Fred: [At a party, fighting with Ilse] It was horrible. Horrible. I mean, you can't even imagine. The way his tongue was hanging on one side, he just looked like a slaughtered beast.
Ilsa: But why are you telling me this?
Fred: These articles, these people. This is what I was trying to explain to your brother.
Ilsa: Don't bring him into this.
Fred: Don't what?
Ilsa: [Confronting] Don't bring my brother into this!
Fred: Oh, he's already in it! He is involved in this! He is involved in it! He's in the field we're discussing! Don't tell me to bring him into it. He's in it!
- SoundtracksGravity's Angel
Written and Performed by Laurie Anderson
Marie and Bruce seem to have been in long marriage and they spend most of the days by nagging on each other and at the same time they both don't listen the other. It's kind of sadistic relationship. Like Marie says to Bruce: "Don't you get it, you're not even a living thing! It's easy to leave you because you're not real." It kind of works both ways. They are both zombies, totally numb. Marie mocks Bruce all the time but Bruce doesn't even react to those insults. Like he doesn't hear what Marie says. And every time Bruce starts conversation with Marie she just rolls her eyes and seems to be away like dreaming. Marie despises Bruce and at the same time she loves him. Like she says herself: "Bruce is like a god." Bruce on the other hand, doesn't feel any kind of sexual attraction against Marie. He tries to make a hit on a girl in a restaurant. He goes to the dirty hotel room just to watch the naked woman in a house across the street. He makes conversations with every woman on the party except Marie. Marie really enjoys mocking Bruce and she somehow enjoys the coldness of Bruce.
Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick were both adorable and their performances are very enjoyable.
Marie and Bruce is surreal love story between two tired people who are seriously tired from each other but they can't live without each other. I highly recommend this film but I have to warn, it's not easy peace to watch. There is lot of symbols and scenes that might not make any sense. Marie and Bruce is movie for a thinking person.
10 out of 10
- monsieurhalifax
- Mar 24, 2010
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- Wallace Shawn's Marie & Bruce
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- Gross worldwide
- $8,349
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1