wonderfully aloof writer director hal hartley hit a speedbump with this heavy hand comic oddity about eccentric and loser and assorted misfit . isabelle huppert play a former nun who be try her hand at write sexual fiction while martin donovan be an amnesiac ( groan ) she pick up in a diner . hartley and who have his big success with this formula via 1991 dryly goofy and charm trust and be too self conscious this time out and and the result be twee . several funny line can not compensate for an ugly look and an overall lack of interest in these character . support cast of crazy include parker posey and but amateur skirt a dead eyed blandness at every turn . from .