Licorice Pizza (2021)
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col/2.39:1 133m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper
Synopsis:
In the early 1970s a fifteen year-old child performer and entrepreneur courts a Jewish girl ten years his senior. Over the next few years they flirt with having a relationship without him ever quite getting it right. In the meantime she grows as a human being and waits for him to grow up.
Review:
Largely plotless but tender recreation of a period the writer-director cannot have known first-hand (cf. Boogie Nights). The treatment of a love story, and the theme of crackpot money-making schemes, recall Punch Drunk Love, but the boy is even more of a hapless dweeb, who begins the movie cocksure and in control but then goes downhill from there. Alana, meanwhile, who takes her name from the actress playing her, is a far more intriguing figure, summing up many of the contradictions of the era. As elsewhere, Anderson proves himself a master film-maker, in full command of staging, framing, cinematography and performance, and most of the time one settles back to enjoy.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col/2.39:1 133m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper
Synopsis:
In the early 1970s a fifteen year-old child performer and entrepreneur courts a Jewish girl ten years his senior. Over the next few years they flirt with having a relationship without him ever quite getting it right. In the meantime she grows as a human being and waits for him to grow up.
Review:
Largely plotless but tender recreation of a period the writer-director cannot have known first-hand (cf. Boogie Nights). The treatment of a love story, and the theme of crackpot money-making schemes, recall Punch Drunk Love, but the boy is even more of a hapless dweeb, who begins the movie cocksure and in control but then goes downhill from there. Alana, meanwhile, who takes her name from the actress playing her, is a far more intriguing figure, summing up many of the contradictions of the era. As elsewhere, Anderson proves himself a master film-maker, in full command of staging, framing, cinematography and performance, and most of the time one settles back to enjoy.
Country: US/CAN
Technical: col/2.39:1 133m
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper
Synopsis:
In the early 1970s a fifteen year-old child performer and entrepreneur courts a Jewish girl ten years his senior. Over the next few years they flirt with having a relationship without him ever quite getting it right. In the meantime she grows as a human being and waits for him to grow up.
Review:
Largely plotless but tender recreation of a period the writer-director cannot have known first-hand (cf. Boogie Nights). The treatment of a love story, and the theme of crackpot money-making schemes, recall Punch Drunk Love, but the boy is even more of a hapless dweeb, who begins the movie cocksure and in control but then goes downhill from there. Alana, meanwhile, who takes her name from the actress playing her, is a far more intriguing figure, summing up many of the contradictions of the era. As elsewhere, Anderson proves himself a master film-maker, in full command of staging, framing, cinematography and performance, and most of the time one settles back to enjoy.