C'mon C'mon (2021)
Country: US
Technical: bw/1.66:1 109m
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman
Synopsis:
A sound recordist working on a 'voices of America' documentary around children is given new perspectives on the workings of a growing mind, not to mention his own emotional intelligence, when he offers to mind his sister's nine year-old son while she tends to her mentally ill husband.
Review:
A cerebral piece, then, and one which could easily tip into the American vice of solipsism and psycho-babble. That it does not is down to the down-to-earth concerns of much of the interplay between uncle and nephew, even when the latter is roleplaying being an orphan. Excellent monochrome cinematography contributes to the wistfulness, while flashbacks to a bereavement, conversations via tape recording and the rather self-conscious European aspect ratio confer the imprimatur of 'arthouse' one is not sure it needs.
Country: US
Technical: bw/1.66:1 109m
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman
Synopsis:
A sound recordist working on a 'voices of America' documentary around children is given new perspectives on the workings of a growing mind, not to mention his own emotional intelligence, when he offers to mind his sister's nine year-old son while she tends to her mentally ill husband.
Review:
A cerebral piece, then, and one which could easily tip into the American vice of solipsism and psycho-babble. That it does not is down to the down-to-earth concerns of much of the interplay between uncle and nephew, even when the latter is roleplaying being an orphan. Excellent monochrome cinematography contributes to the wistfulness, while flashbacks to a bereavement, conversations via tape recording and the rather self-conscious European aspect ratio confer the imprimatur of 'arthouse' one is not sure it needs.
Country: US
Technical: bw/1.66:1 109m
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman
Synopsis:
A sound recordist working on a 'voices of America' documentary around children is given new perspectives on the workings of a growing mind, not to mention his own emotional intelligence, when he offers to mind his sister's nine year-old son while she tends to her mentally ill husband.
Review:
A cerebral piece, then, and one which could easily tip into the American vice of solipsism and psycho-babble. That it does not is down to the down-to-earth concerns of much of the interplay between uncle and nephew, even when the latter is roleplaying being an orphan. Excellent monochrome cinematography contributes to the wistfulness, while flashbacks to a bereavement, conversations via tape recording and the rather self-conscious European aspect ratio confer the imprimatur of 'arthouse' one is not sure it needs.