Country: FIN/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 149m
Director: Josh Safdie
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion
Synopsis:
In 1950s New York, a Jewish shoe salesman determines to become world table tennis champion, and almost succeeds, but becomes a dad instead.
Review:
Deafening, incomprehensible, frenetic piece of self-indulgence, a kind of O Lucky Man for the amoral and narcissistic 21st century. The main character is the most repellent individual one can recall in American cinema, mendacious, spineless and petulant, truly a hero for the Trump era. What it is all supposed to mean is anyone's guess, since so much of the dialogue is inaudible, and the antihero is not even taught a lesson for his overweening arrogance. There isn't quite enough table tennis for it to be about that, so it must be about America as the home of the go-getter, surrounded by squalour and determined to get out from under. Some found its brash iconoclasm liberating, which is why it gets a star, and it is virtuosic.
Country: FIN/US
Technical: col/2.39:1 149m
Director: Josh Safdie
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion
Synopsis:
In 1950s New York, a Jewish shoe salesman determines to become world table tennis champion, and almost succeeds, but becomes a dad instead.
Review:
Deafening, incomprehensible, frenetic piece of self-indulgence, a kind of O Lucky Man for the amoral and narcissistic 21st century. The main character is the most repellent individual one can recall in American cinema, mendacious, spineless and petulant, truly a hero for the Trump era. What it is all supposed to mean is anyone's guess, since so much of the dialogue is inaudible, and the antihero is not even taught a lesson for his overweening arrogance. There isn't quite enough table tennis for it to be about that, so it must be about America as the home of the go-getter, surrounded by squalour and determined to get out from under. Some found its brash iconoclasm liberating, which is why it gets a star, and it is virtuosic.
