There I was, arguing with my dealer what movie to buy. At first, I saw Andy Garcia's name, deciding to take it for my sister. She really likes Garcia. But than again, in all that evening obscurity, with all my pleasure my eyes caught Jagger's name just as well. I couldn't wait to play on the film. I had no idea that Mick Jagger can actually act. Yes I saw him once in the movie about nazi killing gay people in the death camps, during the Second World War. He had not so big role, with Clive Owen playing along the big part among the rest.

This is one simple and funny film directed by George Hickenlooper. It takes place in Pasadena, "a city with old ladies...where people still read." Perhaps there are serious movie buffs that were appreciating this heart-full but small and intelligent script. Even the names are very convenient, carrying the symbolic of simple souls and cruel world out there. Just think: noble Byron, as Lord Byron, Luther Fox as foxy devil: Byron writes about Hitler’s “existing” son and Tobias writes about ancient Rome-it all symbolizing one glorify tale about measure of power. Because the wonderful and balanced cast makes this film an underwhelming and never dying morality tale. Who's The Man from Elysian Fields? Mick-just-like-a rolling-stone-Jagger. Perfect! Andy Garcia plays an aspiring author who gambles his life, to write a first novel that fails. A novel about possibility of Hitler's child survival. "Hitler's Child," about the supposed son of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, becomes hit with the critics, but went on disaster in the bookstores. Nothing new for this commercial world. Seen so many times, a quality with no finances attached. It is however, clear that the scriptwriter lives in reality describing reality in nowadays publishing, with the simple scene in the bookshop: Byron is browsing through a local bookshop-encouraging woman to buy his book. She's uninterested until she sees his photo on the book, insisting Byron signing it. Once he leaves the store the woman tosses the book back. There goes the life of a writer...Once when he meets mysterious Luther Fox (played by Mick Jagger and all that unique flair), British gentleman who has office in the same building as he had. All Fox has to do is mews about how he read "Hitler's Child" and how much he likes Byron's writing. Very foxy. Film never becomes preachy or judgmental, which gives the reality flair, almost like it is author's biography. "The Man From Elysian Fields" is smart and sophisticated piece of work. On many ways, it is a moral tale of someone's reality; not the fiction based morality story. Unique by its simplicity, very memorable.