… and it did not disappoint. I went to an actual screening of this – at the IFC Center in New York – my first actual press screening in over a year – and it was so EXHILARATING. I love this film so much.
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This sounds insane and incredible! Driver is such a distinctive presence, and so game, and as you say of Harry Dean Stanton knows that his face is the story, and makes use of it and his scarecrow limbs in such diverse and fascinating ways, as a dope, as a tender poet, as a genial dude, as a tormented bad guy, as a devotee, and so on and so on. He is so exciting. Keen to see him in this mode.
It is totally insane! I just went and saw it again. I can totally understand why people would be irritated or baffled – but I just love its … weirdness! some of the choices made are just … WHAT? like, “Annette” herself. I will say no more. But I just loved its energy and its creativity.
Driver is so so good. I am now convinced he can do almost anything. He’s done so much. He hasn’t repeated himself. He can be romantic, he can be serious, he can be quiet and loving (Paterson!) – he can be broad – he definitely fits in in a period piece, but he can also be super modern. WHO IS HE. Exciting is definitely the word.
Nobody in this film is “likable” – lol – and it’s very archetypal broad strokes – but it’s the execution that feels so fresh.
I just saw it again and loved it again. I’d be so curious to hear your thoughts.
Ahhh! Yes. WHO IS HE exactly! Just thinking about Silence for instance; he fit so much better in the past than Garfield. And yet he also feels PERFECT next to an impeccably contemporary presence like Bill Murray in Dead Don’t Die, and so on. I will definitely be back once I’ve seen Annette! I am sure I will overuse the word bonkers haha.
and … the more you know about him … the more he seems unknowable. His decision to join the marines, his whole experience in the Marines – and then his marriage, his child – and how private it all is. I didn’t even know he was married or had a kid – I think it was two years into the child’s life that some photographer took a picture of the family and the news came out.
and so true about Silence. He legit seemed like he was from that time. I loved him as an ambitious hipster in While We’re Young, too.
And let’s not forget his very small role in Inside Llewyn Davis – that scene in the recording studio, hearing his bass line, and all those sound effects he does. It’s quietly hilarious.