Inherent Vice (2014)
Country: US
Technical: col 148m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Katherine Waterston, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon
Synopsis:
California Beach, 1970: a stoner P.I. receives a surprise visit from his ex-girlfriend which throws him into the midst of a possible kidnapping, homicide, and a drug smuggling operation run by a legitimate company known as Golden Fang Enterprises. In the meantime he is harassed by the police and FBI.
Review:
Based on a novel by Thomas Pynchon, this is like Altman's Long Goodbye revisited through the prism of The Big Lebowski, though it remains an essential PTA movie in its deliberate formalism and alignment with lost or dysfunctional characters. Even the brute of a police detective, Bigfoot, cuts a pathetic figure. In plot terms it makes little kind of sense, but it hits its beat perfectly in Phoenix's colourful performance and the atmosphere of bewildered immorality, as if the decade were slowly awakening from a bad trip.
Country: US
Technical: col 148m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Katherine Waterston, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon
Synopsis:
California Beach, 1970: a stoner P.I. receives a surprise visit from his ex-girlfriend which throws him into the midst of a possible kidnapping, homicide, and a drug smuggling operation run by a legitimate company known as Golden Fang Enterprises. In the meantime he is harassed by the police and FBI.
Review:
Based on a novel by Thomas Pynchon, this is like Altman's Long Goodbye revisited through the prism of The Big Lebowski, though it remains an essential PTA movie in its deliberate formalism and alignment with lost or dysfunctional characters. Even the brute of a police detective, Bigfoot, cuts a pathetic figure. In plot terms it makes little kind of sense, but it hits its beat perfectly in Phoenix's colourful performance and the atmosphere of bewildered immorality, as if the decade were slowly awakening from a bad trip.
Country: US
Technical: col 148m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Katherine Waterston, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Reese Witherspoon
Synopsis:
California Beach, 1970: a stoner P.I. receives a surprise visit from his ex-girlfriend which throws him into the midst of a possible kidnapping, homicide, and a drug smuggling operation run by a legitimate company known as Golden Fang Enterprises. In the meantime he is harassed by the police and FBI.
Review:
Based on a novel by Thomas Pynchon, this is like Altman's Long Goodbye revisited through the prism of The Big Lebowski, though it remains an essential PTA movie in its deliberate formalism and alignment with lost or dysfunctional characters. Even the brute of a police detective, Bigfoot, cuts a pathetic figure. In plot terms it makes little kind of sense, but it hits its beat perfectly in Phoenix's colourful performance and the atmosphere of bewildered immorality, as if the decade were slowly awakening from a bad trip.