Pablo Picasso PROS: For me, Andie McDowell is one of the most desirable women to ever appear on the big screen. I'd watch it just for her. The acting performance of Gérard Depardieu. He was purportedly France's best actor at the time, appearing in his first English speaking lead role. I wasn't disappointed. CONS: The ending was typical 'romantic comedy chick flick' but difficult to 'buy' given McDowell's attitude toward him up until that point. The whole premise behind why McDowell wanted to marry him in the first place is far-fetched. Favorite scenes: 1. Depardieu being courted by some single ladies over dinner, followed by an emotional appeal at the piano. 2. The couple sharing old photos on the couch, followed by the most dramatic and suspenseful scene in the movie. 3. McDowell's entry back into the greenhouse, alone, and her abrupt focus on some tomato plants. 4. Their separate interviews before the immigration officials. Emotional opinions of each other begin to flow from both their mouths as the editing brilliantly switches back and forth between the two. Enjoy!

namashi_1 Maverick Filmmaker Peter Weir's 'Green Card' is A Great Entertainer, that mixes Humor & Romance, Efficently. Also, the Performances by its Protagonists are charming! 'Green Card' Synopsis: A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.Peter Weir is a SUPEMELY Talented Storyteller, he's made Fantastic Films throughout his thriving career & 'Green Card' is Amongst his Most Accomplished Works to date. As mentioned before, A Great Entertainer, that mixes Humor & Romance, Efficiently! Weir's Oscar-Nominated Original Screenplay is delightful, so is his Direction. Cinematography, Editing & Art Design, are passable.Performance-Wise: Gérard Depardieu & Andie MacDowell deliver Charming Performances. Both of the talented actors also share a Striking On-Screen Chemistry from Start to End.On the whole, 'Green Card' is a must watch.

jonmeta A marriage of convenience to New York environmental activist Brontë (Andie MacDowell) gets French waiter Georges (Gérard Depardieu) a green card to work in America. Brontë gets a sort of "green card" too, in the form of permission to rent an apartment with a rooftop greenhouse. In fact, the colour green is in almost every scene: an emerald green lamp, a nicely placed green wine bottle in several shots, Brontë's clothes, and of course, plants, which appear in pretty much every interior shot –the apartment, a friend's house, restaurants. The exception is Brontë's bedroom (where she's always alone), which is desert colours. This is a very interior movie, and I love how Weir focuses on little details –feet coming down the stairs, the peephole in the front door, water dripping from leaves in the greenhouse –to make the closed spaces interesting. The first time we see Georges and Brontë together, they are saying goodbye on the steps of the courthouse after tying the knot. Suspicion from Immigration agents forces the pair to try proving they have a real marriage. They quickly find that they can't stand each other. But the circumstances force them to spend time learning the details of each other's radically different lives, and then repeat them to the Immigration officials in tones of love and admiration, in order to sound like they are mad for each other. Eventually it has an unexpected effect. The point is that acting and speaking like you love someone can actually bring about what it pretends. I think that's true, even though it goes against conventional ideas of being "genuine", which can simply be an excuse for rudeness. This serious theme is mixed with several situations drawn from the comedy of errors handbook. Green Card has one of the funniest scenes of all time, in my opinion, in which Georges must find a way to convince a room full of New York society people that he's an accomplished musical composer. The laughter is generated by the kind of tension between straight-lacedness and mayhem of a Marx Brothers routine. Bebe Neuwirth as Brontë's friend Lauren is wonderful, nothing remotely like her Lilith character in Cheers, and her reaction to Georges in the musical episode makes the scene even more hilarious.

jamnwhistler This is in response to RCarstairs...I cried too and without a personal loss. (Glad you're OK now) But I think this movie more than any other I've seen captures falling in love. Gerard sees it coming, but Andy doesn't. That last scene, when they spy each other through the cafe window, and then rush to embrace is her first realization that she loves him. In fact, I think that the viewer is also lulled into thinking this is just a silly little story until that scene. I know I was. So the effect was amazing, for me. I sat there stunned, and (how corny) my heart opened! And the tears. I wandered around for an hour or so after the movie, sort of disoriented. Peter Weir is a genius!