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The 1961 film was a revelation. Not only was it one of the best dance musicals to come from Broadway, it was about something serious, taking a tragic story about race and class and setting it down on the streets of Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem.Sixty years later, time has blunted its impact as that kind of groundbreaker. In many modern musicals, the exhilaration to be had from a climactic song-and-dance set-piece is often overlooked in favour of a recitative approach to book and lyrics.
From this fragment of an idea, Joachim Trier creates a shining gem of a film, full of humour, wisdom, drama and spontaneity. Julie is far from the worst person in the world, but sometimes she feels it. Having started in medicine, she switched to psychology, then photography. After she meets successful cartoonist Aksel , she takes up writing, falling in love the moment he tells her they have no future together. At a party some years into her life with Aksel, she meets Eivind .
Reinsve won the best actress award at Cannes this year and it is easy to see why. She is luminous, capable of instantly transforming her look, from gamine to virago, vamp to victim, waif to warrior. Trier created the role for her and she loses herself in it. Watching a director and actor work so well together, with such spontaneity and freedom, is a rare thing.
Did I say delicate? Besnard is not the most subtle of writers. Typical is a joke where Louise fries sliced potatoes, thus inventing frites. Manceron says they will never catch on. A director who believes in anything for a laugh is a danger to comedy. In 1999, this proved a viable starting point for a new kind of blockbuster: one that harnessed the growing power of digital effects, fused such disparate influences as cyberpunk and Hong Kong action cinema, and gave the impression of prying open the machine of commercial entertainment to reveal how it all worked., with Lana Wachowski, co-creator of the original trilogy, now flying solo as director.
Big and brassy, it’s a backstage musical that thrives on its unorthodox casting. Its stars are Rosita , a sweet-voiced pig with 23 piglets at home, Ash , a guitar-playing porcupine, Johnny , a dancing gorilla, and Meena , a singing elephant waging a constant battle with stage fright.is produced by Illumination, the animation company that gave us the Minions and they’re here, too, in a tap-dancing finale which owes a lot to Busby Berkeley.
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