La nostra recensione di Jay Kelly, il nuovo film di Noah Baumbach presentato in concorso alla 82ª Mostra del Cinema di Venezia.
Con un cast straordinario guidato da George Clooney, Adam Sandler e Laura Dern, il film segue il celebre attore Jay Kelly e il suo manager Ron in un viaggio attraverso l’Europa che diventa riflessione su identità, scelte di vita e rapporti familiari.
Nel video vi raccontiamo le nostre impressioni dal Lido, i punti di forza del film e l’accoglienza ricevuta a #Venezia82.
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00:00Along with tropical humidity, Nova Bach also arrives at the Lido, presenting Jay Kelly in competition.
00:11The story is that of the protagonist Jay Kelly, played by George Clooney, the absolute star of the film,
00:17who is an international actor, a great Hollywood star, who finds himself facing a sort of end-of-career crisis,
00:23in which he comes to terms with everything he had to sacrifice to have a brilliant career.
00:30He has made millions of films and can't walk down the street without being stopped by fans looking for autographs and photographs.
00:42However, he has a destroyed family life and, uh, he constantly feels alone, despite being surrounded, uh, at every moment, by his staff,
00:50by his staff who look after him as if he were a child.
00:53The main theme of the film, in fact, is this seemingly unbridgeable dichotomy between a successful career and the sacrifice of personal affections.
01:10Uh, it's a rather overused theme and in fact the film does not shine for its interest.
01:14Adding to the seemingly exhausted theme is a cliché-filled depiction of Italy through the eyes of Americans,
01:25which often makes us, as Italians, turn up our noses.
01:28In addition to this, there is also a rather outdated and out-of-place depiction of the rich interacting with the poor,
01:44and in particular, the moments in which Cloney's character, the world-famous star,
01:49comes into contact with normal people, with ordinary mortals.
01:52In the film he is portrayed as an epiphany of the kindness and beauty of ordinary people,
01:57when in fact it is clearly a distorted vision of a person to whom everyone addresses themselves with a certain deference,
02:02given his position on the social ladder.
02:13The film is full of very famous faces.
02:15Apart from Cloney, who is the protagonist, there is Adam Sandler who plays his manager.
02:22Um, it is a bit sad to see Sandler's character slightly sacrificed.
02:29We know very well that the actor, who is perhaps best known to the general public mainly for his comedies,
02:35peer comedies, is a very refined performer when faced with important stories and scripts,
02:40and the fact that Bomback has vaguely sacrificed him is a bit disappointing.
02:44The presence of this film in the Venice competition is surprising,
02:54especially since in the past Boach had brought some of his best works to the Lido,
02:58such as Marriage Story and White Noise, which, although it caused controversy,
03:02was still a much more interesting and complex work.
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