intonation Mickey, a complex character, escapes from a mental hospital to visit his past, but instead finds a new girlfriend Eva, meets another married girl, but goes to bed with a third - radio host Nancy Love. Intrigue - which of the girls will agree to Mickey's proposal to marry him, because that's what he does after he kisses each of them once?
Alan Rudolph suffers from retromania. So serious that shooting “Choose Me” in his native eighties, I, the viewer, constantly had to remind myself of it. Deliberately lubricated scenery breathe languid, sensual exoticity. The "Choose Me" arteries, the quarter of Eve's night bar, Rudolph fills blacks and black women, clients and prostitutes, in bright leggings, lazily sipping cigarettes, also lazily and naturally they merge into a kiss. The fancied “Choose Me”, the theme of the film, which could only be performed by Negroes with such a natural eroticism, adds fuel to the fire of the relationship of three women and three men, the label “Melrose Place” or “Beverly Hills” will appear on the screen, but the intonation, my dear, intonations make the cheap sweet.
"Choose Me" is a thoughtful work. And every thought of Rudolph is full of irony, but it is also full of longing. There is one magical moment in the film when Genevieve Bujot, who is talking to Leslie Ann Warren on the other end of the phone, suddenly appears behind her back in her office, mentally crossing the space, she tries to convey all the hotness of her blood to the listener, they suddenly become one whole in their thoughts, understandable to each other, but it lasts only a moment, and the fact that Rudolf did not allow himself to step over, prolong this unity, to repeat, makes his film unique, and his view of the separation between people living under one roof, but finding understanding through a dead wall – true to the living. As I like to say, “Choose Me” is a series of films that look fresh years later.
As a true melodrama, "Choose Me" is filled with talk of love, but most surprisingly, this feeling seems to be devoid of everyone. Rudolph does not explore fate and chance, love, or better, human relationships, presented as a product in the supermarket, or a new service industry where every man is a potential husband and vice versa, and the choice is not the heart and instincts, but the opinion of others. As Barbara Stanwyck said in Douglas Serk’s masterpiece, “You can’t get married out of loneliness.” It seems that this loneliness between people with the development of media only increases. Rudolph quotes "The Graduate." On the screen - a confused bride, already trying on the mask of a happy family life in public, brings out the panic in my head - and did I make the right choice? Great movie.
8 out of 10