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Actors: Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte, Béatrice Dalle
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Clean |
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CLEAN is a movie written and directed by the French director Olivier Assayas in 2004. Maggie Cheung earned the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performance.
While touring in Canada, the musician Lee Hauser dies from an overdose. His wife Emily Wang, also an heroin addict, is arrested and spends 6 months in jail while her son Jay is sent to Lee's parents. When she gets out of prison, she speaks to Albrecht Hauser, Lee's father, and she agrees not to see her son for several years.
Emily is in Paris now, works as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant and is still taking methadone. She understands soon that if she wants to see her son again, she has to definitively quit drugs. She decides then to stay clean and writes to Albrecht Hauser. Albrecht is actually in London at his wife's bedside with Jay. He agrees to come to Paris in order to speak with Emily and see if he can trust her.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Clean |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- custody battle
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Druggie/Wino problems?
- drugs
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- singer/musician
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
City?
Yes
City:
- London
- Paris
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- unhappy
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- Yes
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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