Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. PETER BART: The ma…
is a strong movie, but the real Francis and Benedict XVI barely knew each other. Further, the Hitler ofhave been elegantly re-invented. For that matter, the true victims in the Manson murders managed to escape harm inFLEMING
: But c’mon, Peter. The conversations between Popes were invented by Anthony McCarten for his play and the Netflix film, andis satire with Hitler meant to be taken as seriously as the Hitler who ended up gunned down in a movie theater in. Tarantino makes palatable endings out of appalling historical events, as he did this year with the loathsome Manson family. I thought you were going to bring up, which introduces the umpteenth theory of how Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa was killed.
This is a terrible situation for Cynthia Garrett. Over the years, she has spoken about the trauma of being assaulted by a relative, though she wouldn’t go beyond that in identifying him and there is no evidence the filmmakers behindand it presents as laudable a portrayal of her financial genius father as Cynthia Garrett could hope for, save for the excising of her mother because it would have been cumbersome to introduce and explain a new character in the final scene.
Amazon clearly doesn’t know what to do with the movie, which played well at the Venice Film Festival. Inadvertently, the, another Amazon picture. It seemed as though a higher power was demonstrating that its distributor, like its main character, was out of sync with the moment. I respect’s writers and director for presenting Seberg as she was – a woman of another time – as such, both empathetic and self-destructive.
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