Shopgirl
February 13th, 2007 by Jennine
If you can describe a movie as bland – then that is how I feel about Shopgirl. I was under the impression given that Steve Martin, Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzmann were in this film that it would at the very least be interesting. I was wrong.
Mirabelle (Danes) works for Saks Fifth Avenue in Los Angeles and aches for more. She has a couple of dates with Jeremy (Schwartzmann) and writes him off as soon as Ray (Martin) comes along.
The movie tries to be “arthouse” and examine the side of ourselves that we protect and we don’t show to others. Individually they all give good performances it’s just that the story is trite and they don’t seem to gel together. The “love” story just feels unreal and non existent as Danes just looks like she is too good for both of them and they fall well short of her expectations.
Unless you are a fan of Danes or Martin it is not worth viewing as there are much better love triangle movies out there.
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The idea of a movie mixing Salsa dancing and Soccer intrigued me. I had no hopes of it being a movie to remember, which is a good thing. This is a movie that you will forget five minutes after you have seen it.
