This is a sweet, spare story, a Steve Martin screenplay based on his acclaimed short novel. Successful and wealthy Ray (Martin) is charmed by artist (and Saks shopgirl) Mirabelle (Claire Danes) who is perplexed by young bohemian Jeremy (Jason Schwartzman).
Ray's essentially perfect existence has no beating heart of its own. Mirabelle lights all the corners of his life in a way nearly divine for its simplicity and its depth, but he chooses to use only a small part of the bright love and beautiful grace that surrounds her. This part, and nothing else. He refuses her more, and he shows her his limits in a painful way, and the decisions she makes for herself are clear-eyed and sure and true. She loves deeply. . . and she values herself. When some months later, Ray sees Mirabelle one day in the arms of the messy and incongruous man who has dived headlong into loving her with all the truth of his heart, Ray realizes the full measure of her worth and the measure of his loss. I am still feeling the tears behind my eyes when he murmurs, "I did love you."
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