Bloody good stab at Golden Age comedy-romance with Clooney pitted against Renée Zellweger and super footballer John Krasinski. Well put together, good, enjoyable script by Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly, beautifully shot (in a tinted pallette) by Newton Thomas Sigel and well cut by Stephen Mirrione again (whose assemblage in Clooney-Zellweger nightclub scene is a lucious series of dissolves). Clooney puts it all together with bounce and isn't afraid to show himself looking stupid. Composer Randy Newman and producer Grant Heslov appear in bit parts.
Peter Gerety stands out as the commissioner brought in to professionalise football in 1925, an interesting bit of history we're not familiar with, like that of
The Monuments Men (and, come to think of it,
Good Night and Good Luck ). Leading me to deduce that Clooney - as well as his other outstanding talents - is a covert history teacher.
No comments:
Post a Comment