Wednesday 16 June 2010

21 Grams (2003 Alejandro Gonzalez Iňarritu)

Written by Guillermo Arriaga.

Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benecio del Toro, Melissa Leo (his wife), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Sean's ex), Eddie Marsan, Danny Huston.



Ph. Rodrigo Prieto. Del Toro and Watts both nominated.
"Arriaga is a Mexican legend...[he] doesn't think in straight lines. His greatest hits are splintered masterpieces that look as if they've been bashed around with a sledgehammer and then beautifully reassembled in the fourth dimension." James Christopher, The Times.
I sort of know what this means. The  Iňarritu/Arriaga partnership was quite influential (think Crash, Traffic, Syriana) but the way this jumps around in time is totally absorbing, especially with the occasional guitar tremolo of Gustavo Santaolalla (wrote The Others, Linha de Passe, Oscars for Brokeback Mountain (05) and Babel (06)).

Did they like Nic Roeg?

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