Love Liza (2002)
Country: GER/US/FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Todd Louiso
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Kehler, Stephen Tobolowsky, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
A computer graphics designer is distraught when his wife commits suicide and cannot bring himself to read her note; instead he grows increasingly addicted to gasoline fumes, to the extent of passing himself off as a remote-controlled model enthusiast (ironically the latter do not run on conventional fuel).
Review:
The most extraordinary study in bereavement you are ever likely to see; as he behaves ever more irrationally and selfishly it is difficult to sympathize with the protagonist, fine though Hoffman's acting is. The most appealing sequence is the one that comes midway through, in which he attends a remote-control meet, before the return to solipsistic petrol sniffing, while the climactic note-reading is unsatisfactorily handled.
Country: GER/US/FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Todd Louiso
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Kehler, Stephen Tobolowsky, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
A computer graphics designer is distraught when his wife commits suicide and cannot bring himself to read her note; instead he grows increasingly addicted to gasoline fumes, to the extent of passing himself off as a remote-controlled model enthusiast (ironically the latter do not run on conventional fuel).
Review:
The most extraordinary study in bereavement you are ever likely to see; as he behaves ever more irrationally and selfishly it is difficult to sympathize with the protagonist, fine though Hoffman's acting is. The most appealing sequence is the one that comes midway through, in which he attends a remote-control meet, before the return to solipsistic petrol sniffing, while the climactic note-reading is unsatisfactorily handled.
Country: GER/US/FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Todd Louiso
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Kehler, Stephen Tobolowsky, Kathy Bates
Synopsis:
A computer graphics designer is distraught when his wife commits suicide and cannot bring himself to read her note; instead he grows increasingly addicted to gasoline fumes, to the extent of passing himself off as a remote-controlled model enthusiast (ironically the latter do not run on conventional fuel).
Review:
The most extraordinary study in bereavement you are ever likely to see; as he behaves ever more irrationally and selfishly it is difficult to sympathize with the protagonist, fine though Hoffman's acting is. The most appealing sequence is the one that comes midway through, in which he attends a remote-control meet, before the return to solipsistic petrol sniffing, while the climactic note-reading is unsatisfactorily handled.