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It's difficult for me to distinguish the women characters in this movie?


I know there are tow doctors,a wife,a mistress,a secretary who help him to write down his words,and a classical beauty.The problem is that they all look similar to me.

What do you think?

BTW, I am an Asian. Some people in my contry also think it's difficult to distinguish.

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They all are stunningly beautiful but I had no major problems distinguishing them. I only had some problems with two of them: Claude and CĂ©line but just for a second.

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They all looked just alike diidnt they? I was confused for allot of the movie. However, they were all very beautiful, so ididnt mind.

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Oh all the time I think Josephine (the girl that goes with him to Lourdes and the same that is on the window when he is on his convertible car before goes for his son) was Ines.

So do you tell me if we see Ines at some point at the movie?
cuz he talks all time about her and I think that was the girl of the trip to Lourdes (Josephine)

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Yea I had trouble telling them apart..and worse, they all had blonde hair. Confusing sometimes.

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To reply to the original post, lol, i have short-term memory loss and i thought it was just me!

Yea, it was a bit hard.

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Sorry, I am an American and did not have trouble.

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It was confusing, the transcriber and the ex looked alike, and the speech therapist and the nurse looked alike.

"I call the movie, Risky Business, Risky It, because "it" means business."

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I agree with the "difficult...to distinguish" theme to this thread. But the therapist who did most of the initial communicating was easy to recognize after a while. She had a warm look of restrained affection whenever conversing with Jean-Do. For me, she was the most endearing character in the film.

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Well true they are all blondes. And they are all slim and pretty.
But I'd recognise Emmanuelle Seigner anytime because I need to after Bitter Moon and Frantic... She plays the wife and she is on the poster.

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Agree. They're all beautiful and they all look the same, but it was intentional. In words of Schnabel himself, hey are meant to represent one woman (figuratively).

I saw this on a great YouTube interview, not the 60 Minutes' Renaissance Man one (also in YouTube), but one with close captions. Great interview.

Sorry I don't have the link, but I'm at work and don't have access to YT.

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Ok nice answer, If ever you find that interview on YT again, please post that link here. You know there is Extra's also on the DVD?

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For me it was also a little confusing to distinguish some women, like the secretary and the nurse, who was also very pretty.

Well, talking about movie's love for women and bad mood for men, well, remember this is an autobiographic movie of a man, a very womanlover. So, i think, everything he could really care, was about women, those made most of his days.

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ha3 me too. They all look like a same for me :D

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