This is what Paper Moon looks like in the 2020s*, with excerpts from children's educational books and interviews with young people about their views. To help his sister Gaby Hoffman, with whom he's had a difficult relationship, Joaquin Phoenix offers to look after her ten year old son, the British Woody Norman (Peter and Wendy, The White Princess, Poldark) in New York.
The beautiful black and white images are care of Robbie Ryan, the editing and sound editing are also worthy of mention - there's often stuff going on in the sound that doesn't match the image. Editor Jennifer Vecchiarello, sound Zach Seivers. With a mix of ambient music (Aaron and Bryce Dessner) and a whole heap of mainly classical music cues, there's an accumulation of creative stuff here that probably points to Mills' best film (he also made Thumbsucker, Beginners and 20th Century Women).
The cumulative scene in Central Park is so stunning it's almost as though we're in a twentieth century fairy tale. It was shot on a digital Alexa Mini.
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* Actually, Alice in the Cities was the reference point, a film that's long been on the 'to watch' list.
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