The comic plot of Fonzy is outrageous, but to writer-director Isabelle Doval, it's just an armature that supports its gently funny characters and its themes of emotional and filial connections.
Diego, played by the pleasantly Robert Downey Jr.-like José Garcia, is an affable fuckup with big debts to loan sharks and a family reputation of extreme unreliability. But he excels at producing unbelievably potent sperm, gallons of which he sold, during his twenties, to a fertility clinic, to supplement his intermittent income.
Eighteen years later, after the sperm bank is forced to issue a consanguinity warning for inadvertently administering too much of his sperm to a single community, Diego discovers that he is the biological father of 533 children. 150 of the...
Diego, played by the pleasantly Robert Downey Jr.-like José Garcia, is an affable fuckup with big debts to loan sharks and a family reputation of extreme unreliability. But he excels at producing unbelievably potent sperm, gallons of which he sold, during his twenties, to a fertility clinic, to supplement his intermittent income.
Eighteen years later, after the sperm bank is forced to issue a consanguinity warning for inadvertently administering too much of his sperm to a single community, Diego discovers that he is the biological father of 533 children. 150 of the...
- 6/18/2014
- Village Voice
Inside Llewyn Davis | August: Osage County | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | Teenage | Fonzy | Grudge Match | The General | Dark Days | Jai Ho
Inside Llewyn Davis (15)
(Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013, Us) Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Adam Driver, Garret Hedlund, John Goodman. 105 mins
Bob Dylan hadn't written Like A Rolling Stone when this is set (New York, 1961), but Isaac's eponymous hero could almost be the inspiration. He's the archetypal drifter: a complete unknown with no direction home and little prospect of realising his folk-star dream, despite, or perhaps because of, his artistic integrity. The Coens let us know exactly how it feels. This is their most mature drama to date: subdued, sincere, bleakly funny, and as finely crafted as we've come to expect.
August: Osage County (15)
(John Wells, 2013, Us) Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts. 121 mins
Heavy acting artillery is positioned for a full-on awards assault, with Streep's malign matriarch marshalling her fractured family for some mourning and bloodletting.
Inside Llewyn Davis (15)
(Joel & Ethan Coen, 2013, Us) Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, Adam Driver, Garret Hedlund, John Goodman. 105 mins
Bob Dylan hadn't written Like A Rolling Stone when this is set (New York, 1961), but Isaac's eponymous hero could almost be the inspiration. He's the archetypal drifter: a complete unknown with no direction home and little prospect of realising his folk-star dream, despite, or perhaps because of, his artistic integrity. The Coens let us know exactly how it feels. This is their most mature drama to date: subdued, sincere, bleakly funny, and as finely crafted as we've come to expect.
August: Osage County (15)
(John Wells, 2013, Us) Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts. 121 mins
Heavy acting artillery is positioned for a full-on awards assault, with Streep's malign matriarch marshalling her fractured family for some mourning and bloodletting.
- 1/25/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
'Elizabeth,' Loren big draws at Rome festival
ROME -- The European premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age was the big event on the first full day of the RomaCinemaFest, with star Cate Blanchett and director Shekhar Kapur attracting applause from a red carpet crowd noticeably fuller than the one from opening night a day earlier.
Earlier, Sophia Loren received a standing ovation at the Sistine Theater when she was awarded a lifetime achievement award.
The festival, which concludes Oct. 27, got under way Thursday with a limited schedule. But Friday featured a full lineup, with Elizabeth and several events related to the Focus India sidebar dominating the day.
Brad Isaacs' Have Dreams Will Travel and Un Chateau en Espagne (My Very Best Friend) from Isabelle Doval also premiered Friday, both in the Alice in the City sidebar for young moviegoers. And, after a 30-minute documentary on her career, Loren charmed a standing-room-only crowd with anecdotes from her early years in the film business.
The weekend schedule in Rome is expected to attract even more attention, with the world premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's first film in a decade -- Youth Without Youth -- and the European premiere of Francois Girard's Silk, starring Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt, on tap.
Earlier, Sophia Loren received a standing ovation at the Sistine Theater when she was awarded a lifetime achievement award.
The festival, which concludes Oct. 27, got under way Thursday with a limited schedule. But Friday featured a full lineup, with Elizabeth and several events related to the Focus India sidebar dominating the day.
Brad Isaacs' Have Dreams Will Travel and Un Chateau en Espagne (My Very Best Friend) from Isabelle Doval also premiered Friday, both in the Alice in the City sidebar for young moviegoers. And, after a 30-minute documentary on her career, Loren charmed a standing-room-only crowd with anecdotes from her early years in the film business.
The weekend schedule in Rome is expected to attract even more attention, with the world premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's first film in a decade -- Youth Without Youth -- and the European premiere of Francois Girard's Silk, starring Keira Knightley and Michael Pitt, on tap.
- 10/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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