CQ

it is worth seeing this film if only for giancarlo giannini's outrageous immitation of Lord Dino. I can only hope they're still friends.... Full review

Jeremy Davies does a great job playing a member (Paul) of a film crew, trying to figure himself out while making a movie (called "Dragonfly") in Paris in the 1960's. Doesn't sound so interesting (unless you're a film student) but there... Full review

the rest of the film is so satisfying and intriguing, it is almost a shame....Whether CQ 's ending is satisfying or not is up to the individual viewer....CQ is also well served by its moody synth-pop soundtrack, another element it shares with The Virgin Suicides .....although her strongest scene is a curious little moment of intimacy with Davies when she is in her street clothes.... ... Full Review

His obsession with the film bores and annoys her -....Beguiling model turned actress Angela Lindvall is perfect as Valentine/Dragonfly....Compound this with his fresh obsession with lead actress, Angela Lindvall, and his tendency to combine reality with fantasy....his work with the pretentious director is short lived when Felix gets in a car accident....Dragonfly," is directed by the haphazard and histrionic Andrzej (Gerard Depardieu)..... ... Full Review

His French girlfriend, Marlene (Elodie Bouchez), does not understand why his passion for film outmeasures his passion for her.....But love alone does not make a film watchable, no matter how much of it there is.....Coppola clearly loves the sort of movie that "Codename....Somehow, Paul himself winds up with the task of completing this film in a way that will be artistically satisfying as well as commercially viable..... ... Full Review

Paul's "personal" document, the film he believes is "honest....Roman Coppola's picture is no less annoying, more awkward and glib....recalling his grander, younger days, perhaps, he fights for his right to make a visionary film, a "circle," without an ending.....Dragonfly is a gorgeous secret agent, played by the gorgeous actress Valentine (played by the gorgeous model-turned-actress Angela Lindvall)..... ... Full Review

a ticklishly funny start with a scene from "Dragonfly....Unfazed, music video director Roman Coppola has chosen to walk in his father's footsteps, albeit in less prepossessing shoes..... ... Full Review

A good cast, a decent budget, and a novice filmmaker don't always add up to much. In the case of "CQ," the 2001 film from writer-director Roman Coppola, the sum of the parts equals largely a confused mediocrity. ... Full Article

"CQ," ROMAN Coppola's cine-schoolboy homage to the pop underground era of the '60s, is a charming, spirited movie for cinephiles, or those who aspire to be. It's the kind of movie every kid in film school wanted to make but ... Full Article

May 29, 2002 | The movies we love best don't necessarily stick with us as distinct wholes but as flashes of images that can strike, cobralike, in our memories at any time. ... Full Article

March 5, 2002 - Premiering this month (8th - 17th) at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas is the off-center comic drama CQ , the directorial debut of another member of the Coppola family: Roman Coppola. ... Full Article

Early on, Coppola introduces the "irony" that such a goofy film could be made in the wake of the 1968 Paris riots (Valentine is even a student protester turned starlet). ... Full Article

Francis Ford Coppola seems to have raised an entire family of chips off the old auteur. Two years after Sofia Coppola made her feature directorial debut with ''The Virgin Suicides,'' 37-year-old Roman Coppola makes his with CQ, a whimsical plop... ... Full Article