A romantically intended flight trip is very different for Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Ivy (Olivia Colman).
The Roses – Fabian Melchers
Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner fought each other out of the tent in 1989, now it is the turn of Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. That casting could not have been better. The latest film adaptation of The war of the roses Is more than just a black comedy.
Architect Theo and Kok Ivy have clearly found their cute family turning in The Rosesuntil a storm turns everything upside down. While Theo’s life’s work is blown to fragments, Ivy sees her restaurant flows for the first time. The choice seems easy: Ivy continues on her success and Theo becomes a family man. But the more they bite into that rola, the more they lose sight of each other. Until the bomb really bursts.
That dormant venom is both funny and sad in the hands of screenwriter Tony McNamara, known from Oscarlievelingen Poor Things and The Favorite. There is plenty to laugh about Ivy’s decadent excesses or the sports regime that Theo imposes on its children, but in the meantime we also look at two lifelike people who swallow their frustrations and so only make the problems bigger. During a cozy dinner dinner you feel the atmosphere becoming more painful.
Humanity is therefore more paramount in this version of The Roses. Andy Samberg and Kate McKinnon are there as a comic lightning rods, but the real fireworks come from Colman and Cumberbatch. How does it exist that they have never played together in a film? From tender to false, from hurt to explosive; There are two new Oscar nominations in the air here.
Fabian Melchers
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Hank (Austin Butler) thought he only had to look after a cat.
CAUGHT STEALING – Eric le Duc
Darren Aronofsky is obsessed with pariahs. Check the director’s resume and see how The wresidual was about a self -destructive show wrestler. Black Swan put a flooded ballet dancer in the spotlights and in The Whale an obese homosexual was central. Also Aronofsky’s new film CAUGHT STEALING revolves around an eccentric outsider.
New York, 1998. After a car accident, baseball talent Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) has to continue as a bartender. When he comes home one night, his punk neighbor asks if he can fit his cat for a week. Of course, no problem. Well, so. Because a few hours later, Hank gets blows from two Russian fat necks that knock. And then suddenly a duo Jewish assassins are at the door. Then Hank finds a fake roller in the litter box with the key to a cash safe. After which he realizes: this is wrong.
After an oeuvre full of heavy food, Aronofsky now surprises with a comic, energetic and smooth crime thriller, based on the novel of the same name and the script of writer Charlie Huston. In the style of Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) and Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) The director drags the viewer into a cool retro setting in which a tough gang war in crazy rawdouwers is found.
What follows is entertaining slapstick action with a cast full A-stars. Liev Schreiber and Vincent d’Onofrio are the witty of that. When the Yiddish Fixers Lipa and Shmully, they drag Hank home for a strong interrogation. But not before their mother gets a plate of invigorating soup with matze balls. Absolute Showsteler, on the other hand, is Matt Smith (House of the Dragon) As Hanks Punk neighbor Russ. See him cracks through New York in his drained rust box. Sun roof open of course, otherwise his huge rooster comb will not fit. Expensive!