Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
The latest film from 83-year-old director Sidney Lumet feels like a movie that might have come straight out of Cannes from a fresh new talent.
The latest film from 83-year-old director Sidney Lumet feels like a movie that might have come straight out of Cannes from a fresh new talent.
David Mackenzie handles the decidedly dark material with such grace and care it’s easy to forget the subject matter in [Mister] Foe is actually quite fucked up.
Juno’s script reads like a normal screenplay processed through some kind of indie-hipster translation machine. Replace every word or phrase in every line with some other ‘cooler’ way of saying the same thing and bingo; you have the secret to Juno’s ‘refreshing’ dialogue.
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