Capote (2005)
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 114m
Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jnr, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban
Synopsis:
The author of Breakfast at Tiffany's reads of the meaningless slaughter of a Kansas family by, as it turns out, two young vagrants and determines that it will be the story that changes the way America looks at itself, as well as giving birth to a new genre: the non-fiction novel. If only he can find an ending.
Review:
So dazzled is one by the brilliance of the central performance that one is temporarily blinded to the excruciating (or satisfying, depending on one's point of view) ironies which are for the most part allowed to lurk suggestively beneath the surface. The self-aggrandizement of the character is so entertaining that its implications can be obscured from view: the authorial purpose can only be served by an appeal process that lasts precisely long enough for the research to be done but which nevertheless ends in failure. There are many shades of significance around Capote/Hoffman's reactions when this is not the case: mendacity, guilt, pity, and alcoholism.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 114m
Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jnr, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban
Synopsis:
The author of Breakfast at Tiffany's reads of the meaningless slaughter of a Kansas family by, as it turns out, two young vagrants and determines that it will be the story that changes the way America looks at itself, as well as giving birth to a new genre: the non-fiction novel. If only he can find an ending.
Review:
So dazzled is one by the brilliance of the central performance that one is temporarily blinded to the excruciating (or satisfying, depending on one's point of view) ironies which are for the most part allowed to lurk suggestively beneath the surface. The self-aggrandizement of the character is so entertaining that its implications can be obscured from view: the authorial purpose can only be served by an appeal process that lasts precisely long enough for the research to be done but which nevertheless ends in failure. There are many shades of significance around Capote/Hoffman's reactions when this is not the case: mendacity, guilt, pity, and alcoholism.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 114m
Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jnr, Bruce Greenwood, Bob Balaban
Synopsis:
The author of Breakfast at Tiffany's reads of the meaningless slaughter of a Kansas family by, as it turns out, two young vagrants and determines that it will be the story that changes the way America looks at itself, as well as giving birth to a new genre: the non-fiction novel. If only he can find an ending.
Review:
So dazzled is one by the brilliance of the central performance that one is temporarily blinded to the excruciating (or satisfying, depending on one's point of view) ironies which are for the most part allowed to lurk suggestively beneath the surface. The self-aggrandizement of the character is so entertaining that its implications can be obscured from view: the authorial purpose can only be served by an appeal process that lasts precisely long enough for the research to be done but which nevertheless ends in failure. There are many shades of significance around Capote/Hoffman's reactions when this is not the case: mendacity, guilt, pity, and alcoholism.