Joy (2015)
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Bradley Cooper, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis:
An imaginative, creative little girl is nurtured and encouraged by her grandmother to achieve great things, but has found her chaotic family life to have more than ever pushed those dreams into the long grass. Then, one day, she has an idea for a new design mop and everything changes. But it won't be easy.
Review:
Even though based on fact, this is one of those ideas it must be a struggle to get made in the New Hollywood. Even in the old days it would have to be about the electric light bulb or the telephone for them to sit up and take notice, and then it would have generated one of those four-square, Warner style biopics the majors made to fulfil their perceived duty to educate and inform. Russell's film is doubly remarkable, then, not only in existing, but in telling its story in such an engagingly self-aware manner. Nothing is off-limits: messing with chronology, slowing down/freezing the action, characters appearing when they are dead or gone, etc. and casting and plotting decisions embrace quirkiness and improbability. In the midst of it floats the sublime presence of Miss Lawrence, who has already in her twenties attained the effortless grace and sincerity of a Lombard or a MacLaine.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Bradley Cooper, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis:
An imaginative, creative little girl is nurtured and encouraged by her grandmother to achieve great things, but has found her chaotic family life to have more than ever pushed those dreams into the long grass. Then, one day, she has an idea for a new design mop and everything changes. But it won't be easy.
Review:
Even though based on fact, this is one of those ideas it must be a struggle to get made in the New Hollywood. Even in the old days it would have to be about the electric light bulb or the telephone for them to sit up and take notice, and then it would have generated one of those four-square, Warner style biopics the majors made to fulfil their perceived duty to educate and inform. Russell's film is doubly remarkable, then, not only in existing, but in telling its story in such an engagingly self-aware manner. Nothing is off-limits: messing with chronology, slowing down/freezing the action, characters appearing when they are dead or gone, etc. and casting and plotting decisions embrace quirkiness and improbability. In the midst of it floats the sublime presence of Miss Lawrence, who has already in her twenties attained the effortless grace and sincerity of a Lombard or a MacLaine.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Bradley Cooper, Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis:
An imaginative, creative little girl is nurtured and encouraged by her grandmother to achieve great things, but has found her chaotic family life to have more than ever pushed those dreams into the long grass. Then, one day, she has an idea for a new design mop and everything changes. But it won't be easy.
Review:
Even though based on fact, this is one of those ideas it must be a struggle to get made in the New Hollywood. Even in the old days it would have to be about the electric light bulb or the telephone for them to sit up and take notice, and then it would have generated one of those four-square, Warner style biopics the majors made to fulfil their perceived duty to educate and inform. Russell's film is doubly remarkable, then, not only in existing, but in telling its story in such an engagingly self-aware manner. Nothing is off-limits: messing with chronology, slowing down/freezing the action, characters appearing when they are dead or gone, etc. and casting and plotting decisions embrace quirkiness and improbability. In the midst of it floats the sublime presence of Miss Lawrence, who has already in her twenties attained the effortless grace and sincerity of a Lombard or a MacLaine.