Sunday, May 29, 2005
DAISED
Today's movie was Driving Miss Daisy (1989); directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy.
Ebert uses the word 'luminous'. That is a pretty good summary.
We saw Tandy on the stage a few times with her husband Hume Cronyn. The pair was formidable. They grabbed you by the lapels in the first act, shook you until your teeth rattled in the second, then sent you home worn out from the third.
Tandy and Freeman are the same kind of team. Their work together is astounding.
It is fun watching a sophisticated man like Freeman play the old style black man who is just coming out of himself with white people. The throttled mouth-closed laughter, the bent shoulders, the half shuffle and walking behind are all mannerisms that I have seen in 'real life'.
It should be noted that Esther Rolle, Dan Akroyd and Patti LuPone do a great job covering the supporting roles.
It is a great movie; a 5 out of Netflix5. Did I mention that it is another of the Best 1176 NY Times Films?
