WHEN WILL I BE LOVED (2004) ¢ 1/2
D: James Toback
Neve Campbell, Frederick Weller, Dominic Chianese,
Karen Allen, Lori Singer, Mike Tyson
The first time you see Neve Campbell in this, she's taking a shower. It's right at the beginning of the movie, and the shots of Neve taking a shower are intercut with shots of her lowlife boyfriend (Frederick Weller) trying to hustle up a deal on the streets of New York. I suppose there could be some deep metaphorical significance to that shower scene, but I was too distracted by Neve Campbell to notice. That happens sometimes. Neve's character turns out to be a spoiled rich girl with real nice clothes and a bright, new Manhattan loft, who hustles men for the fun of it. In fact, everybody in the film is hustling somebody for something, usually on the pretext that they're giving them something, or making them happy, or helping them grow as a person, which is bullshit and ought to be played for laughs, but it's not. It's just tedious, and by the end, you can't help feeling you've been hustled yourself. Still, that's a pretty nice shower scene.
