kshitij (axile007) Broken English closely captures the trouble faced by a girl in carrying on relationships & her desperation to find someone whom she can marry. The main theme of the story is to try looking for someone who can be your appropriate match or what inputs you need to give in a relationship to make it everlasting. May be the problem which a person is facing are not worth worrying or important. Well coming to the movie, Parker is beautiful, young & independent girl. She had been in many relationships which probably ended up with sex or she fell for someone who is already married ,in short she always end up picking a wrong match for her. What she exactly wanted was some guy who is reliable, caring & ready to be committed. But her continuous failure in relationships freaked her out until she found out that its not only true love that she was expecting from her life. It meant more than that. There are two aspect of relationships. For some people its not more than a casual affair but for others it may means a lot. So its all about picking up a right match for you. Otherwise on a serious note it may lead to frustrating consequences like feeling of failure & insecurity in life. This movie is very well handled in terms of acting and direction specifically. So at least the people who care about sensitive & mature topics should give it a try.

torrmelling to say i enjoyed broken English would be an understatement. this movie struck home with me like few others. a bit slow for your average audience, i found it was wonderfully acted, awkward, painful, poignant, sad, realistic, and thankfully not your typical Hollywood ending! parker posey is fantastic as a sometimes neurotic, pensive, emotional and desperate woman who feels as though she'll be alone forever. my favorite scenes are the bathtub, the restaurant/desert/bathroom scene and the one where she's finally let it go and decided to have fun despite it all when her and her girlfriend are in Paris. one of my top favorite movies!

TinyPliny This is a very depressing movie. I am not sure why it has been billed as a comedy. The lead actress stumbles and grimaces through a misguided haze of cigarette smoke, alcohol and a couple of boyfriends before she arrives at a similar chain-smoking and alcoholic Frenchman. An interminably boring and totally inexplicable courtship follows before the inevitable chasing-across-the-countries-and-getting-united plot.It is the same old tired storyline bottled in a cracked old beer bottle. There is not a scene in a movie where the actor/actresses/extras aren't drinking or smoking. You would think that the same old tried and tested plot would elicit some happiness in the audience, but NO. The whole cast and the director manage to "skillfully" derail even the tired formula for happiness into a depressing, poorly acted, bitter and direction-less rut.Please don't waste your two hours watching this excuse for a "comedy". I think it should be a crime to make such ridiculously dull tripe. Portraying the two main agents of chronic disease (smoking and alcohol) in superfluous detail doesn't redeem this load of rubbish, any. Yuck.

siderite I like Parker Posey, she is obviously a talented actress and (I like to fantasize) chooses a lot of roles in indie films. This movie is obviously something that meant a lot to the writer/director, because it is both detailed and nonlinear. However, I did not find it really interesting. Maybe because I am a guy and I am not American.The story is about a neurotic New York woman, desperate to find true love, and finally stumbling on it by accident with a French guy. Their romance is not everything that happens in the film, though. You have to spend a lot of time following her failed relationships, both sentimental and at work, her pushy mother, the failing marriage of her best friend and a lot of other stuff. As a "life movie" how my parents called this kind of stories, it makes a good one, but not much of an attractive one. Or maybe I just didn't empathize with anyone in it.Bottom line: solid direction and acting, but quite a bore of a script. Women might enjoy it more, but judging by the reaction of my wife, it takes a bit more than just gender.