The FiFi Report 065

Garden State by Zac Braff
I will say one thing: George Clooney might be out of a job. Zac Braff, we adore you! OK, so you are only 29 and not very tall (but then neither is George) but you are so funny and romantic and clever. How do I know such things? Because after the screening of Garden State we were lucky to sit in on the Q&A with Zac and you could literally hear every girl in the audience swooning. Probably too because the movie is a Rom Com of the highest order. But relax, I mean an arty left of field Rom Com which is much more appealing than a Julia Roberts film. Funny thing, we thought it was going to be a bit of a teen/Gen X angst movie but the unabashedly romantic story sneaks up on you and before you know it, it’s a full on love story that is really touching . So why is Zac so adorable? Because he wrote, directed and acted in it. It’s about Andrew Largeman ( Zac) who “ shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma ( a vegetative state?) until his mother’s death forces him to go home for the first time in nine years. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old friends who are all a bit kooky: grave diggers, fast food knights, the panderers of pyramid schemes and masturbating dogs. True. But in a twist of fate, he meets a girl (Natalie Portman), who is a lying epileptic and everything he isn’t. Noisy, full of life and hope. Sweet. And since I am a great friends of Natalie Portman ( Well , I did do a Vogue shoot with her once in New York ), I can tell you she is a great actress and seems thrilled to get out of her star wars outfits. Yes, We laughed, we cried, we laughed all over again. A lovely movie, I might even see again (wonder if George is free that night?).