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Interview, Sept, 2005 by Nick Pinkerton
REVIEW: CLEAN (Palm) Directed by Olivier Assayas
The warm-blooded flipside to Olivier Assayas's Demonlover (2002), Clean is similarly concerned with internationally disseminated media product, here pop music, with all its damning and redemptive qualities. Maggie Cheung is Emily Wang, a junkie-in-recovery vilified by the music press for the textbook O.D. death of her washed-up rockstar boyfriend; she retreats to Paris in hopes of getting straight and earning back her son from his guardian grandfather (Nick Nolte, in a wonderfully shy, creaky performance). Buoyed by fuzzy, weightless Brian Eno synths, Clean is simply as emotionally luminous an experience as the movies can offer.
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