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Some Velvet Morning

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 24m
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5.8/10
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Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve in Some Velvet Morning (2013)
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A man surprises his former mistress by claiming to have left his wife. However, before long, a dark history between the two comes into focus.A man surprises his former mistress by claiming to have left his wife. However, before long, a dark history between the two comes into focus.A man surprises his former mistress by claiming to have left his wife. However, before long, a dark history between the two comes into focus.

  • Director
    • Neil LaBute
  • Writer
    • Neil LaBute
  • Stars
    • Stanley Tucci
    • Alice Eve
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.8/10
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    • Director
      • Neil LaBute
    • Writer
      • Neil LaBute
    • Stars
      • Stanley Tucci
      • Alice Eve
    • 23User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
    • 54Metascore
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    Alice Eve in Some Velvet Morning (2013)
    Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve in Some Velvet Morning (2013)
    Stanley Tucci in Some Velvet Morning (2013)
    Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve in Some Velvet Morning (2013)
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    Stanley Tucci
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    Alice Eve
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      • Neil LaBute
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      • Neil LaBute
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    • Trivia
      This film was named after the name of a song of the same name named "Some Velvet Morning" written by Lee Hazlewood and originally recorded as a duet by Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra for her 1967 album Movin' with Nancy.
    • Goofs
      When Velvet is sitting at the top of the stairs calling Chris, her shawl/cardigan goes from the side of her leg, to covering it, to the side, to covering it.
    • Quotes

      Velvet: What are you so angry about, Fred? So bitter. I haven't done anything.

      Fred: So what? Shit happens to people who haven't done anything all the time. What does it matter? It just depends on how we deal with it, whatever lands at our feet.

      Velvet: Is that right?

      Fred: Yeah, that is right. That's the truth. The lesson is in the struggle. That's what makes us shine, or roll over and die like little bitches in the dirt with our guts exposed and flies shitting in our open mouths.

    • Crazy credits
      Last credit: "for august strindberg. with love." (All lower case, with periods, on two separate lines.)
    • Soundtracks
      Pierre et Nicole
      Composed by Georges Delerue

      Performed by the London Sinfonietta

      Courtesy of SiDoMusic B. Liechti & Cie

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    6/10
    Two-Hander Depicting the Basic Cruelty of Human Beings
    Neil LaBute's work has always been raw in tone, frequently offensive, yet never lacking in punch.

    SOME VELVET MORNING proves no exception to this rule. Set in a split-level apartment in a big city, is concerns an apparently unstable relationship between middle-aged lawyer Fred (Stanley Tucci), and his twentysomething former mistress Velvet (Alice Eve). Fred claims to have left his wife and returned to Velvet after a four-year absence, while Velvet apparently resents his unexpected appearance in her apartment.

    Most of the film's eighty-two minute running-time is devoted to a roller-coaster depiction of the characters' relationship as it veers from protestations of love, false demonstrations of passion, and the more obvious depicting of male power based on strength. In the final reel there is an unexpected denouement that calls into question the entire basis on which the plot has been constructed. Some might consider it artificial; others a too-obvious elaboration of the film's basic theme.

    In terms of style, SOME VELVET MORNING has much of the rawness of David Mamet's OLEANNA (1994), another two-hander based on the clash between a man and woman of varying ages, combined with the destructive potential of Mike Nichols's WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (1966), wherein the main characters tear emotional lumps out of each other in pursuit of emotional as well as physical mastery.

    As director, LaBute refuses to let his characters out of sight of his penetrating camera. We feel uncomfortably close to them, especially Fred as he tries to ingratiate himself once again into Velvet's emotions. Yet there is a sense in which the film glorifies as well as condemns male power; Tucci portrays Fred as the initiator of most of the conversations he conducts with Velvet. Until he achieves his desired aim, he will never give up.

    In truth the plot begins to pall as it unfolds, as we wonder why Fred is so insistent on achieving his desired aim. Is it part of his own feeling of insecurity; that he is an emotional wreck with a pathological inability to articulate his emotions? As Velvet, Eve tends to be too much of a foil to him; in Beckettian fashion she tells us she is going out but never actually takes any positive action.

    It might be said that SOME VELVET MORNING gives an uncompromising portrait of modern relationships. In truth it actually reveals the bile at the heart of the writer/ director's consciousness, which manifests itself in a consciously sexist piece of work.
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    • Release date
      • December 10, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Kadife Gibi Bir Sabah
    • Filming locations
      • Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • GO Productions
      • MJZ
      • Untouchable Films
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    • Budget
      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $6,420
    • Gross worldwide
      • $6,420
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 24 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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