Sunday, April 10, 2005

Pauline Kael

“…. [T]his low-budget comedy-fantasy has some of the most entertaining (and best-sustained) performances I've seen all year.

“…. Geneviève Bujold has the dippiest and funniest role: she dispenses sex-therapy advice on a radio show, and when she's feeling hot she gets listeners hot. Over the years, Bujold has developed a marvellously close rapport with moviegoers; she can make us feel we're reading her mind. And here she has us entering into every twist of her character's nuthead frigidity and nymphomania; after a while, we giggle happily at sight of her, anticipating that she'll do something naughty, and she doesn't let us down….”

Pauline Kael
The New Yorker, Dec. 24, 1984
State of the Art, p 289
[left out too much about other performers? because discussion of Warren and Chong touches upon, by implication, all other performers]

David Edelstein

“These people are cartoons, but that's not a criticism: cartoons have a place in a surreal, hyperventilated farce like Choose Me. Bujold's Dr. Love is an easy target, perhaps, but when she's seduced by Mickey and then babbles to her listeners about the thrill of having sex, she's hilarious and touching….”

David Edelstein
Village Voice, date ?
[left out some ?]