Flashbacks of a Fool. Daniel Craig proving his ability outside of Bond has played patron to both lead actor and executive producer in this cagey 2008 film. He plays aged actor Joe Scott, a Hollywood veteran who experiences a rude awakening for the shallowness of his life when fame begins to fade. His life, that of copious amounts of cocaine use, an abundance of loose sex with beautiful women, expensive wine and no real connection to anything just isn't going well allegedly.
Meet young Joe Scott, the star of the second act and most of the film played by Harry Eden who delivers a powerful performance exploring the romanticism of the female and her sexual fruits for most of the film. Joe as a teenage boy supplies the detail and meaning for act one, the cause of a washed up crackhead years down the track.
Written and directed by Baillie Walsh who has a sterling resume of involvement in music producing previous documentaries on INXS, Oasis and Massive attack, develops in the story great nostalgic rhythms created by a host of details but the soundtrack especially, a dilemma of David Bowie and early Roxy music.
An even greater Romanticist than Amory Blaine, every sexual encounter for Joe Scott is like speeding round a blind corner, indeed the first shot of young Joe is of him and his best friend masturbating together. Here builds the reason (they're not gay) for his returning to England for his old friends funeral in act three.
The casting is correct providing the trimming to already well characterised and emotional identifiable roles. This allows nostalgia to sweep you along with the second acts new adolescent pace connecting stories recited by your parents and filling it with everyones common knowledge of fashion and hey I'm not discounting epigenetic memory either.
Costume design is fantastic the familiarity of the present and retro delivered near perfect again being helped along by the casting. The awesome cinematography beginning with the splendid blue horizon in the beach side Malibu coastline contrasted against the rugged British summer and their excuse of a beach.
With some eventful appearances from Eve, Mark Strong and Gina Athans (see below) its worth watching just for the off chance the film incites some feeling in you lost by the bashing of hollywoods seasonal crap.
Just one of the women Joe Scott penetrates The ending ties the first two acts together, barely and far too bluntly as if lacking closure to some (my girlfriends sister) but the emotional carry through from the middle defining point allows it to sublimely close, at least for me, being stoned does help.
If you enjoy good music and diabolical sluts then you'll be stoked. Its two out of five joints!
By Travis Lipshus, for more reviews check out http://travislipshus.blogspot.com.au/
Meet young Joe Scott, the star of the second act and most of the film played by Harry Eden who delivers a powerful performance exploring the romanticism of the female and her sexual fruits for most of the film. Joe as a teenage boy supplies the detail and meaning for act one, the cause of a washed up crackhead years down the track.
Written and directed by Baillie Walsh who has a sterling resume of involvement in music producing previous documentaries on INXS, Oasis and Massive attack, develops in the story great nostalgic rhythms created by a host of details but the soundtrack especially, a dilemma of David Bowie and early Roxy music.
An even greater Romanticist than Amory Blaine, every sexual encounter for Joe Scott is like speeding round a blind corner, indeed the first shot of young Joe is of him and his best friend masturbating together. Here builds the reason (they're not gay) for his returning to England for his old friends funeral in act three.
The casting is correct providing the trimming to already well characterised and emotional identifiable roles. This allows nostalgia to sweep you along with the second acts new adolescent pace connecting stories recited by your parents and filling it with everyones common knowledge of fashion and hey I'm not discounting epigenetic memory either.
Costume design is fantastic the familiarity of the present and retro delivered near perfect again being helped along by the casting. The awesome cinematography beginning with the splendid blue horizon in the beach side Malibu coastline contrasted against the rugged British summer and their excuse of a beach.
With some eventful appearances from Eve, Mark Strong and Gina Athans (see below) its worth watching just for the off chance the film incites some feeling in you lost by the bashing of hollywoods seasonal crap.
Just one of the women Joe Scott penetrates The ending ties the first two acts together, barely and far too bluntly as if lacking closure to some (my girlfriends sister) but the emotional carry through from the middle defining point allows it to sublimely close, at least for me, being stoned does help.
If you enjoy good music and diabolical sluts then you'll be stoked. Its two out of five joints!
By Travis Lipshus, for more reviews check out http://travislipshus.blogspot.com.au/