Walk the Line (2005)
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 136m
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick
Synopsis:
Biopic of Johnny Cash, centring on the childhood trauma of his brother's death in a sawmill accident, his drug addiction, and his friendship/slow-to-be-consummated relationship with June Carter.
Review:
The narrative arc first encompasses Cash's battle with himself, bookended by his contemplation of a circular saw in the workshop at Fulsom Prison; we end with his on-stage proposal to Carter. Thus, we avoid some of the pitfalls of the genre (the too broad canvas, the sight-seeing approach to life's upheavals, focusing on the highs and lows and somehow dovetailing the two) and retrieve the character drama it should be. Phoenix and Witherspoon both do their own singing and are impressively well prepared in their roles.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 136m
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick
Synopsis:
Biopic of Johnny Cash, centring on the childhood trauma of his brother's death in a sawmill accident, his drug addiction, and his friendship/slow-to-be-consummated relationship with June Carter.
Review:
The narrative arc first encompasses Cash's battle with himself, bookended by his contemplation of a circular saw in the workshop at Fulsom Prison; we end with his on-stage proposal to Carter. Thus, we avoid some of the pitfalls of the genre (the too broad canvas, the sight-seeing approach to life's upheavals, focusing on the highs and lows and somehow dovetailing the two) and retrieve the character drama it should be. Phoenix and Witherspoon both do their own singing and are impressively well prepared in their roles.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 136m
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick
Synopsis:
Biopic of Johnny Cash, centring on the childhood trauma of his brother's death in a sawmill accident, his drug addiction, and his friendship/slow-to-be-consummated relationship with June Carter.
Review:
The narrative arc first encompasses Cash's battle with himself, bookended by his contemplation of a circular saw in the workshop at Fulsom Prison; we end with his on-stage proposal to Carter. Thus, we avoid some of the pitfalls of the genre (the too broad canvas, the sight-seeing approach to life's upheavals, focusing on the highs and lows and somehow dovetailing the two) and retrieve the character drama it should be. Phoenix and Witherspoon both do their own singing and are impressively well prepared in their roles.