Director Sean Penn and his daughter bring authenticity to this stylish but convoluted film real-life drama about US counterfeiter John Vogel
Photograph: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc./© 2021 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights ReservedPhotograph: Courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc./© 2021 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reservedtrue-life story that traces one woman’s tumultuous relationship with her serially unreliable father, Sean Penn’slooks terrific.
For all the bold stylistic decisions and visual energy, the actual storytelling tangles itself up in a convoluted, nonlinear structure, depleting some of the thrust and restlessness of the camerawork. Still, as forger, con artist and sometime bank robber John Vogel and his daughter Jennifer, the Penns give committed – and in Dylan’s case exposed – performances.
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