A Devotion to Film Binds Two Loners
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
In “Man in the Chair”Christopher Plummer, an actor typecast nowadays as a suave, smiling cobra slithering through the corridors of power, sheds his scales to play a tippling old curmudgeon raging against the dying of the light. His fierce portrayal of Flash Madden, a long-retired Hollywood studio gaffer, is the knot that ties together this sentimental intergenerational drama.
The movie, written and directed by Michael Schroeder, wants to confront hard truths about old age in what one character disgustedly labels a throwaway society. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3813 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 7 dicembre 2007
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