Gyllenhaal and Peña are brilliant and work off each other skilfully. I don’t know whether they were lucky enough to get hours and hours of rehearsal time, or whether Ayer simply shot a tonne of takes, but their banter is incredibly authentic.
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We also get some videophone call footage and, because it’s 2011, we get some scenes recorded on an iPhone. Of course, this is apparently an iPhone from the future, since it looks suspiciously like HD even when blown up to cinema screen size, but I was able to suspend disbelief nonetheless.
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The three young filmmakers are convincingly played by Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna M
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From how Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has otherwise been received, one could be forgiven for thinking that Sacha Baron Cohen is the comic messiah. The plaudits have generally made reference to his Continue reading Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
There has been a dearth of quality home-grown comedy for the screen in recent times – 2005’s Look Both Ways, The Proposition, Peaches and Wolf Creek could hardly be described as light-hearted, and this year’s Jindabyne, 2:37 and The Caterpillar Continue reading Kenny
That’s right: the gang’s all here. Once more Christopher Guest et al have bought us a mockumentary focussing on a quirky subculture. This time it’s folk music. (Something of which I know absolutely nothing, apart from David Bowie’s early work.) Continue reading A Mighty Wind