20 June 2009

Padres y hijos

Tetro

Sun

Yes, right: no M-multiples during the entertainment-dollar-draining baseball season, but with a Fox Game of the Week-mandated awkward 4:10 game time this week, I saw no reason not to sample a pregame single. Damned glad I did.

The narrative gets out of control and a little flabby in the late going, but Daddy Coppola's latest is a fantastic visual poem throughout; I don't often notice camerawork per se, but if Mihai Malaimare Jr. and Walter Murch don't get Oscar® noms for cinematography and editing, respectively, the Civil War was fixed.

Newbie Alden Ehrenreich, while credible as kin to Vincent Gallo, evokes a young Leo DiCaprio for the first two-thirds of the film, then morphs via the cockiness of success + a goofy hair curl to a young Jo Cotten. Both associations work for the character. And then there's Maribel VerdĂș, who is always as welcome on the screen as in my dreams. Did I mention that this is a gorgeous freakin' film?

1 comment:

Jennie Tonic said...

Any explanation for the bottle of wine in the ad?