Every routine has its charm if you sprinkle a bit of poetry into it. And I'm pretty sure the Japanese poet who shows up at the end of the movie is Hirayama from Perfect Days.
O cinema costuma mostrar o tal “homem comum” como um bruto, um oprimido ou um alienado. Jim Jarmusch prefere enxergar também sensibilidade. Dentro da rotina repetitiva como motorista de ônibus, o personagem do Adam Driver encontra inspiração para escrever poesia, sempre atento aos passageiros que…
Adam Sandler can really act?!?!
Uma master class de família disfuncional. Os cortes abruptos em momentos chave dos personagens permite uma visão multifacetada dos efeitos da personalidade egocêntrica do pai sobre seus filhos. Só Ema Thompson parece subaproveitada aqui.
Imagine if Philip Roth and Fellini had an adoptive son named Harry.
Like Roth's characters, Harry is a true walking disaster, stumbling through his own problems and obsessions. And just like in "8 1/2", we're immersed in the protagonist's confused mind, where reality and fantasy blend in hilarious and sometimes uncomfortable ways.
Woody, as usual, plays with the neuroses of his Jewish characters in a way only he can. In short, "Deconstructing Harry" is like taking a Roth novel, tossing…
The latest Oscar-nominated film to watch and the first one of the marathon. It's also one of the most entertaining ones in recent years. An ironic critique of white paternalism aiming to confine African Americans into comfortable stereotypes: slang, drugs, crime, rap. Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is a "Johnnie Walker Blue" writer struggling to publish his book because it doesn't fit the expected narrative. In a fit of rage, he decides to write a book filled with these clichés, assuming a…
