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Week of January 4, 2013
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Cosmopolis
When someone says that they work out of their limousine it usually means that they actually drive it for a living.
Mercifully, the well-to-do passenger in this drama doesn’t wear a chauffeur’s hat.
On the same day the President is scheduled to visit Manhattan amid uprisings, and a funeral procession for a renowned rapper (K'naan) careens through midtown, billionaire Eric Packer (Pattinson) instructs his driver to taxi him to his barber.
Along the way a myriad of personalities, from his CFO (Samantha Morton) to his mistress (Juliette Binoche) to his proctologist, enter Eric’s mobile-office with news of his depleting fortune, his potential assassin (Paul Giamatti) and his irregular shaped prostate.
Director David Cronenberg’s adaptation of the novel, Cosmopolis is a bizarre, sardonic odyssey through gridlock and one’s self that is more a cerebral excursion than a cinematic one.
Besides, when a moving vehicle is your office, where is your lobby? 0
Looper
The downside to meeting your older self is the disappointment in discovering there’s no cure for baldness and beer-guts in the future.
Thankfully, the button-man in this sci-fi thriller only has to worry about one of those afflictions.
Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a unique hit man known as a Looper who has been hired by criminals 30-years in the future to assassinate enemies they send back through time.
But when Joe’s older self (Bruce Willis) comes back for disposing, his younger self is overpowered by him.
Loose in the past, future Joe attempts to assassinate the child of a single-mother (Emily Blunt) who grows up to be a kingpin.
An elegantly devised time travel tale with an abundance of action and a tender romance, Looper is an innovative take on the well-trodden sub-genre.
Incidentally, the upside to meeting your future self is the sudden expansion of wardrobe in your size. 0
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Synecdoche, New York
The difficulty in casting someone to play you in a production of your life is finding an actor with features that match your body dysmorphic image.
Luckily, the director in this drama not only found someone to play himself but everyone in his life.
After separating from his wife (Catherine Keener), stage director Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) receives a fellowship, which he uses to finance a navel-gazing piece about his existence as a means to deconstruct it.
Going so far as constructing life-sized sets of NYC inside of a warehouse and casting actors to portray him (Tom Noonan) and the women (Samantha Morton, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Michelle Williams) that occupy his self-obsessed life.
One man’s esoteric exploration into his past transgressions, Synecdoche, New York is writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s own inaccessible magus opus.
However, the advantage to directing your own biographical stage-play is that you make an excellent understudy.
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