A painful performance by Hawke

Rating: Null/10 (9 October 2000)

Poor Julie Delpy. Watching her try to convince us that her character is falling in love with the alternately smug and forlorn Hawke (his two emoticons) is like watching a nice attractive woman debase herself with a jerk boyfriend. Leave him! you want to cry out, but the "romance" and the movie drag on endlessly. Hawke was good in Hamlet, where the plainly self-indulgent aspects of his character make sense. As a romantic lead, he is unbearable.