by
Julien Faddoul
Inherent Vice ***
In
Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry
"Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Truthful to the spirit of its source
material, this is a sore, savage comedy on man’s rebellion to approaching
complexities of life. Characters and plot machinations haphazardly enter as if
they escaped from their own movie to the point where bewilderment becomes
involuntary. It exhibits the growing maturity of its director, who here gives
little effort to show off or even charm.
wd – Paul Thomas Anderson (Based on the Novel by Thomas Pynchon)
ph – Robert
Elswit
pd – David Crank
m – Jonny Greenwood
m – Jonny Greenwood
ed – Leslie
Jones
cos – Mark Bridges
p – Paul
Thomason Anderson, JoAnne Sellar, Daniel Lupi
Cast:
Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Katherine Waterston, Reese
Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Jordan Christian
Hearn, Hong Chau, Jeannie Berlin, Maya Rudolph, Michael K. Williams, Michelle
Sinclair, Martin Short, Sasha Pieterse, Martin Donovan, Eric Roberts, Serena
Scott Thomas, Jefferson Mays, Keith Jardine, Peter McRobbie
Beyond the Lights **
A
talented young musician on the brink of super stardom struggles with the
pressure of her new-found success.
Not entirely successful but
surprisingly intelligent rumination on the desperation of stardom. It suffers
from corniness in the third act.
wd
– Gina Prince-Bythewood
ph
– Tami Reiker
pd
– Cecilia Montiel
m
– Mark Isham
ed
– Terilyn A. Shropshire
cos
– Sandra Hernandez
p
– Stephanie Allain, Reggie Rock Bythewood, Amar’e Stoudemire
Cast:
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nate Parker, Minnie Driver, Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Glover,
Darryl stephens, Elaine Tan
Leviathan **
A
present day social drama spanning multiple characters about the human
insecurity in a "new country" which gradually unwinds to a
mythological scale concerning the human condition on earth entirely.
Dramatically sprawling piece of
Russian life that is typical of this director, though more conversational than
usual. His theses don’t compute with the film’s extraneous running time.
d
– Andrey Zvyagintsev
w
– Andrey Zvyagintsev, Oleg Negin
ph
– Mikhail Krichman
pd
– Andrey Ponkratov
m
– Philip Glass
ed
– Andrey Zvyagintsev
p
– Sergey Melkumov, Alexander Rodnyansky, Marianna Sardarova
Cast:
Aleksey Serebryakov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Anna
Ukolova, Aleksey Rozin, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Sergey Pokhodaev, Sergey
Bachurskiy, Platon Kamenev, Irina Graba
Tom at the Farm *
After
his boyfriend dies, a copywriter travels to the countryside to attend the funeral
and is surprised when he finds out that no one knows who he is.
Hitchcockian thriller that shows a
growth from its wunderkind director beyond his usual grab-bag of aesthetic influences,
but his excesses and vanities still remain.
d
– Xavier Dolan
w
– Xavier Dolan, Michel Marc Bouchard
ph
– Andre Turpin
ad
– Colombe Raby
m
– Gabriel Yared
ed
– Xavier Dolan
cos
– Xavier Dolan
p
– Charles Gillibert, Nathanael Karmitz
Cast:
Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy
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