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Stephen Merchant has all the right moves

"These are big movies," insists Michael Lerner's studio boss in the Coen brothers' 1991 hit Barton Fink, "about big men - in tights, both physically and mentally!" He's trying to explain to John Turturro's angsty writer the inherent parameters of a wrestling movie, insisting: "We don't put Wally Beery in a fruity movie about suffering." Yet just as William Faulkner reportedly did uncredited rewrites on Beery's 1932 picture Flesh, so writer-director Stephen Merchant here manages to subvert the genre and inject some of "that Barton Fink feeling" into this uplifting romp. [...]

di Mark Kermode, articolo completo (4656 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Observer 3 marzo 2019