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Offbeat Stylized Sexy
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Showbiz Filmmaking Artists and Showbiz Secret Agents Obsession Lifestyle Mind and Soul
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Comedy Drama Period
Time/Period:
20th Century 60s
Place:
Europe France Italy Paris Movie Set
Humor:
Silly Humor
Style:
Film in Film Surreal
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CQ, 2001

Starring: Jeremy Davies, Angela Lindvall, Elodie Bouchez

Directed by: Roman Coppola

Written by: Roman Coppola

Language: English, French

Country: USA, Luxembourg, France, Italy

Runtime: 88 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:6.3

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The mood of CQ is offbeat, stylized, and sexy. The plot centers around filmmaking, showbiz, and artists and showbiz. It features silly humor. CQ is a drama, comedy, and period movie. Stylistically, it is a film in a film and is surreal. In approach, it is realistic. CQ takes place, at least partly, on a movie set. The setting is Italy and Paris. It happens in the 1960s. Note that CQ includes nudity.

Summary of CQ

Directed by Roman Coppola (the son of Francis Ford Coppola and brother of Sofia) in his feature film debut, CQ follows Paul (Jeremy Davies), an aspiring American filmmaker living in Paris circa 1969 with his French girlfriend, Marlene (Élodie Boulez). When Paul's not in his flat making an angst-ridden home movie and treating Marlene with complete indifference, he's working as a editor on a sci-fi film helmed by the volatile Andrezej (Gérard Depardieu) and starring the beautiful Valentine (Angela Lindvall) as Dragonfly, a sexy secret agent. After a tense fight between Andrezej and the film's producer (Giancarlo Giannini), Paul is promoted to director, leaving him with an unfinished film and a growing infatuation with Valentine.

A tribute to late-1960s guilty pleasures such as BARBARELLA and DANGER: DIABOLIK, CQ even goes so far as to include John Phillip Law (who starred in both films) in a minor role. Coppola's film also places one foot in the film-about-film genre, with many references to French New Wave cinema that particularly pop up in Paul's autobiographical movie. With it's immaculate 1969 period design and eclectic supporting cast--including Jason Schwartzman, Dean Stockwell, and Billy Zane--CQ makes for a unique look at the strange world of making movies.

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Language:	English, French
Country:	USA, Luxembourg, France, Italy
Release date:	24 May 2002
Runtime:	88 min

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Jeremy Davies

as Paul

Angela Lindvall

as Dragonfly / Valentine

Elodie Bouchez

as Marlene

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Salon.com

A frothy, sexy, '60s delight with a movie lover's heart. Full Review

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by: Stephanie Zacharek

San Francisco Chronicle

The film deserves some kind of honor for its campy originality, smart and funny dialogue, and provocative yet sensitive look at the making of a film circa 1969. Full Review

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by: Jonathan Curiel

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Serious film students may love it, and I'll let them. For the rest of us, this movie is eight-eight excrutiating minutes long. Read and rate it

11.June.2009
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by: jostrem
jostrem rated this movie2/10Bad

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