Watching this movie, it occurred to me that after years of waiting we are finally harvesting the fruit of the film generation.Īvary, who is 27 (a few years younger than Tarantino), "began his career," as his bio puts it, "making aggressive Super-8 shorts at the age of 13"). Avary's screenplay is carefully constructed to isolate Zed downstairs in the vault ara, so he doesn 't know that Eric is going berserk upstairs, terrifying everyone, as a bloodbath develops and police ring the building. Will it surprise anyone that one of the hostages is Zoe? Hardly, given the movie's title. And the next day, still hung over and confused, Eric and his ragtag gang take Zed along to the bank heist - where they screw things up, kill someone, and have to take everyone in the bank hostage. This is the kind of movie that treats drugs approximately the same way Wimpy treats hamburgers. Eric takes Zed on a heroin-fueled tour of the Parisian underworld, a shadowy Hades of jazz clubs and dark streets. Zed, very curiously, hardly stirs in protest at this behavior, which says something about him or about Avary, and I guess it's Avary, because later Zed is going to be quite solicitous of Zoe. Then Eric turns up and violently throws the naked Zoe out of the Zed's room. (Zed supplies her with an orgasm the likes of which she has never experienced before - another clue that this movie benefits from a certain post-adolescent male sexual idealism). Right.Īnyway, Zed and Zoe make blissful love. I looked at the credits and, yep, sure enough, the movie's executive producer is Quentin Tarantino the trademark of his projects is that the only way guys meet girls is if they're hookers - but very nice hookers, of course, like the Patricia Arquette character in Tarantino's screenplay " True Romance," who had only been hooking for three days, I think, before she met Mr. Zoe is of course not "really" a prostitute, but a student, very beautiful, who takes a client now and then to pay for her tuition.
First, though, Eric meets Zoe ( Julie Delpy), a hooker who is sent to his room by a helpful cab driver.
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