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Clean (2004)

Directed by Olivier Assayas

Drama

Overview

After she ends up in prison and loses custody of her son, a woman struggles to assimilate outside her former life and remain clean long enough to regain custody of her son.

Length 111 minutes

Actors

Maggie Cheung | Nick Nolte | Béatrice Dalle | Jeanne Balibar | Don McKellar | Martha Henry | James Johnston | James Dennis | Rémi Martin | Laëtitia Spigarelli | Arnaud Churin | Kurtys Kidd | Shaun Austin-Olsen | Jodi Crawford | Ross McKie | Calum de Hartog | Clare-Marie Grigg | Paul Brogen | Joana Preiss | David Salsedo | Mike Hoong | Régis Vidal | Jurgen Doering | Shaun Matheson | John Stoneham Jr. | Michelle Palmateer | Paraskevi Antonarakis | Shannon Novak | Tricky | David Roback | Elizabeth Densmore | Emily Haines | James Shaw | Josh Winstead | Joules Scott-Key

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Can’t believe this was Maggie Cheung’s last major role before she retired. She’s excellent in this even if the story is a little blah. I think she won an award for this performance. Seriously, she should’ve been one of the biggest actors at the time.

I watched Maggie Cheung’s interview in the extras, which was really long and rather revealing. She makes no mention that this was to be her last film nor does she say she’s retiring. However, she does say that she wants to work less (this is back in 2004) and would not just take any role that came her way and would wait years for the right part. “It might be 3 or 5 years until my next film bc I will wait for the right role and story or I may do 3 movies next year… no, I wouldn’t do 3 movies. Only one movie. One movie a year is good and all I want.” Paraphrasing here. She also talks about collecting roles like collecting stamps in that if she already has that stamp she doesn’t want another one so she’s only interested in roles different than what’s she’s already done.

In the interview she still seems quite pleased with acting and the experience so I’m even more curious why it all stopped. She seemed in her prime doing really cool and interesting work (In the Mood for Love, Hero, etc.).

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