Review of Broken English: Three Songs by Marianne Faithfull (1979) by Michael K — 10 Jan 2009

I keep noticing that, despite whatever the director thought was normal in terms of social situations, this movie portrays men in an odd way, or rather I should say it portrays men in an odd, somewhat unrealistic way.

A lot of times even the male lead comes off as being overly pushy and even slightly creepy, as does every other male in the movie. There are also some odd moments, like the one where Nora walks into the Parisian cafe and joins the three frenchmen, and then tries to engage in banter with them, but somehow it comes out flawed, stilted and awkward.

I'm not certain if that awkwardness is the fault of the director, meaning that the scene was shot inexpertly, or if it was the fault of the screenwriter, in which case the entire scene would've been destined for awkwardness no matter which way it'd been shot.