Willow ,'Showtime'
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It looks a little close to a sensitive First Worlder cliché to me
If it's close to the book, it's more like a furious, rage-obsessed first worlder. It's not Le Carre's best book by a long way, but there's a definite sense of a writer rediscovering his sense of outrage at the way pharmaceuticals operate.
David Edelstein, also notes Jessica Lange's face (not unkindly) in his review of Broken Flowers:
Lange plays Carmen, an animal therapist, apparently in hiding from the verbal deception of humans and protected by a hotcha (lesbian?) guard-dog receptionist (Chloe Sevigny). It's a troubling sequence, made more troubling by the way in which Lange has aged. I'm afraid it has come to this with regard to actresses these days: You think, "Nature? Cosmetic surgery? Bad cosmetic surgery?" Only her plastic surgeon knows for sure. But until we have sexual parity (Why should Murray be credible with Julie Fucking Delphy?), we're going to have to grapple with the problem of great actresses whose faces have gone slightly haywire. It's not an issue for the still-youngish Tilda Swinton, whose rural biker-chick Penny is an essay in rage. Her encounter with Murray's Don is ferociously brief.
He also says:
This is the crowning performance in what I call Bill Murray's Loneliness Trilogy, which consists of Broken Flowers, Lost in Translation, and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. In his melancholy, he's funny; in his funniness, he's at sea: The ironic hipster clown has become God's loneliest man.
Hmmmm. I would've put Rushmore instead of Zissou on that last, but that may be less thematically apt since he does connect (ultimately) with people in Rushmore. But I have been thinking of Broken Flowers as part of a Late Bill Murray Period series.
part of a Late Bill Murray Period series.
I've always loved Bill Murray, which has sometimes seemed to put me in a very small minority, but his Late Period has really taken him to a whole new level, I think.
In the future, I believe Murray, particularly in his Late Period, will be used as a text book definition of pathos in acting.
I the future
Seany is the future.
Cool.
I've always loved Bill Murray
Gods, yes. I think Stripes was the point of no return for me.
I the future
Seany is the future.
Hee! Typo now fixed.
I believe the Sean, he is the future / teach him well and let him lead the way...
I have seen the future and the future is me.
In the future, everyone will be Sean K for 15 minutes.
In the future, everyone will be Sean K for 15 minutes.
Fuck!
::frantically hits rewind::
BWAH!