LICORICE PIZZA
Kind: Comedy ✦✦✦ 1/2
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn
1973. San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angelesthe same place where Anderson set himself Boogie Nights, Magnolia And Drunk with lovethis time it is the scene of a meeting.
Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” (photo by Melinda Sue Gordon © 2021 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.).
She is 25, he is 10 years old. In a place teeming with comical neurosis (Bradley Cooper’s boyfriend of Barbra Streisand is fabulous), the odd couple is measured by feelings and the market (the waterbed business is compromised by the oil crisis).
PTA, a director with a magical touch, talks about a mythical age and a strange kind of love (in which he is a specialist) without nostalgia and languor. A true, sincere, insane ode to youth. A little stunned.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ great
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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