Venice movie event
The gracious star plays a gracious star assessing his life and profession at a Tuscan film festival in a extremely nostalgic and self-indulgent piece of cine-narcissism
Everybody loves George Clooney, and appropriately so. His performances in movies such as Michael Clayton, Out of Sight and Ocean’s Eleven have actually been a pleasure, and as a classy public figure he has basically single-handedly underwritten the continuing money of Hollywood classiness. In this dire, emotional and self-indulgent film, he has the appearance of a man who has discovered strychnine in his Nespresso covering and can not remember which of the cabinets in his high-end resort collection contains the antidote.It is routed by Noah Baumbach, whose 2022 film White Noise, based on the Don DeLillo novel, was an outstanding competitors entry at Venice. (Baumbach was apparently disconcerted by a tepid response; I assumed it was great.) This one is a grisly, sucrose, sub-Fellini swoon on the topic of a super-handsome Hollywood star attending a Italian arts festival to accept a lifetime achievement honor, and normally experiencing endless bittersweet flashbacks to his young people, in which the center aged Jay Kelly looks on, with that recognizing Clooney smile. Continue analysis … Source: The Guardian