![]() ![]() And he makes a believable Italian-American, which is impressive considering that he's Danish. Ali is certain to get another nomination Mortensen's performance may be a little too broad to garner one, but he delivers exactly what's called for. Mahershala Ali makes a nice Oscar follow-up playing the aloof pianist passenger to Viggo Mortensen's "b.s. That's not a setup that a Hollywood script written from scratch would ever have come up with. Consider: A college-educated concert pianist of Jamaican descent hires a temporarily-unemployed Italian-American nightclub bouncer who's streetwise but academically dim to drive him to venues in the Deep South back in 1962. ![]() ![]() There's definitely an air of authenticity to the events as they unfold that could never occur with a purely contrived plot. I think this is largely because it's based on a real-life story about the beginning of a lifelong friendship - a story that has writing participation by the son of one of the real-life characters. it really WAS the best film I saw (out of 17), and far and away the most entertaining. I generally go for weightier fare, so my being won over by a PG-13 road film with the familiar "they-couldn't-have-been-more-different" premise directed by the auteur co-responsible for such recent classics as "Dumb and Dumber To" and "The Three Stooges" elicited a virtual double-take. Some of my movie friends were stunned when I mentioned in a thread that this was my "People's Choice Award" vote for TIFF 2018 (it won, btw). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |