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Brian W. CookScenario:
Anthony FrewinCamera:
Howard AthertonActeurs:
John Malkovich, Marc Warren, Enzo Cilenti, Peter Sallis, Maynard Eziashi, Luke Mably, Linda Bassett, Ken Russell, James Dreyfus, Honor Blackman, Bryan Dick (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
John Malkovich gives a hilarious tour-de-force as Alan Conway, a conman who successfully passed himself off as the famed and notoriously reclusive director, Stanley Kubrick, for the last decade of the filmmaker's life, despite knowing very little about Kubrick. It'd be a farce of the highest order if it weren't based on a true story. (officiële tekst van distribiteur)
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Ummm.... Well... I've seen John Malkovich play all sorts of weirdos, but I really didn't expect to see him in the skin of a gay con man dressed in really, really homo costumes, sometimes heavily made up and in one scene even armed with fishnet stockings, impersonating Stanley Kubrick himself. From the distributor's text for the DVD cover, it would seem that Color Me Kubrick would be primarily a goofy comedy. It's not. And that is thanks to Malkovich. In his performance, Conway is a rather tragicomic figure whom one can pity one moment, hate the next and love the next. The experience of the film (you probably won't laugh, but I can almost guarantee you a smile on your face for most of the sympathetically short runtime) is helped immensely by the soundtrack, i.e. music taken mainly from Kubrick's notorious opuses. For example, the "homeless" walk to the laundry room to the sound of Also Sprach Zarathustra is literally stunning. __P.S. "It will be called 3001: A Space Odyssey." - "And who's going to play the lead?" - "John Malkovich." - "John... Who?" __P.P.S. All that was missing from the ending was A Clockwork Orange "I'm cured!"
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The casting of John Malkovich in the main role, as a cunning manipulator, was fortunate, and the actor, who is almost always on screen, works wonders and manages to make a pleasant spectacle out of an otherwise fairly average film. The plot itself is also attractive, with a homosexual fraudster pretending to be a famous director. However, that is essentially where the list of pros ends, because the appealing subject matter is not explored in the film's screenplay, and considering the potential the plot had, there are uncomfortably few comedic situations. Overall impression: 60%.
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A film centered around the great John Malkovich and, of course, a wildly twisted tale of trust and foolishness on one side, and cruelty and calculation on the other. The film beautifully shows how people simply lack a conscience and do as they please when given the opportunity, and sometimes it works out for them. But even that doesn't save the fact that the film is mainly just a curiosity.
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