Saturday, April 24, 2010
FARCICAL
Today's Michel Gondry picture was
This was Gondry's first film. It is a back to nature and back again farce which somehow is just this side of reality enough that it is not farcical.
It has a misfire in it somewhere.
A lot of the parts are good. It is just that the sum of the parts doesn't quite make it.
If "satire is what closes on Saturday night" (George. S. Kaufman) then farce is what dies when it is taken too seriously by the people who are in it.
I know that they were probably told to do it straight but they should be doing it straight with a flip.
Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ivins, Tim Robbins form a Darwinian triangle and a host of really really good supporting actors are here to support. It is enjoyable. It is sobering. It is another script by Charlie Kaufman. Watch out when the scriptwriter is more visible, in this case, than the director.
And so on.
I am glad that I saw it. I can see Gondry's future in the making here.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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