The Irishman (2019)
Country: US
Technical: col 209m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Anna Paquin
Synopsis:
From the 1950s to the 1970s, a simple, brutishly loyal truck driver works his way up to being minder-stroke-hitman for a top crime family, and their inside man with union boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Review:
What starts out as another doggedly well-documented crime exposé from Scorsese gradually works up a head of steam to be his most brilliant film in some time. While it adopts his Goodfellas-style first-person narration, one is free to observe the various countercurrents of irony and incomprehension issuing from his daughter(s), from one's knowledge of contemporary events, or simply from one's own crucially different ethical viewpoint. Instead of despairing of the director's evident obsession with criminal characters, one becomes aware of the tragedy of a man whose inchoate feeling of guilt is nonetheless incapable of brokering true remorse or challenging his code of secrecy and setting his victims' minds at rest. There is a microcosm of a whole society here, if one cares to look for it. It is a last great performance from De Niro (and Pesci), in spite of the digital rejuvenation to which it is subjected.
Country: US
Technical: col 209m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Anna Paquin
Synopsis:
From the 1950s to the 1970s, a simple, brutishly loyal truck driver works his way up to being minder-stroke-hitman for a top crime family, and their inside man with union boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Review:
What starts out as another doggedly well-documented crime exposé from Scorsese gradually works up a head of steam to be his most brilliant film in some time. While it adopts his Goodfellas-style first-person narration, one is free to observe the various countercurrents of irony and incomprehension issuing from his daughter(s), from one's knowledge of contemporary events, or simply from one's own crucially different ethical viewpoint. Instead of despairing of the director's evident obsession with criminal characters, one becomes aware of the tragedy of a man whose inchoate feeling of guilt is nonetheless incapable of brokering true remorse or challenging his code of secrecy and setting his victims' minds at rest. There is a microcosm of a whole society here, if one cares to look for it. It is a last great performance from De Niro (and Pesci), in spite of the digital rejuvenation to which it is subjected.
Country: US
Technical: col 209m
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Anna Paquin
Synopsis:
From the 1950s to the 1970s, a simple, brutishly loyal truck driver works his way up to being minder-stroke-hitman for a top crime family, and their inside man with union boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Review:
What starts out as another doggedly well-documented crime exposé from Scorsese gradually works up a head of steam to be his most brilliant film in some time. While it adopts his Goodfellas-style first-person narration, one is free to observe the various countercurrents of irony and incomprehension issuing from his daughter(s), from one's knowledge of contemporary events, or simply from one's own crucially different ethical viewpoint. Instead of despairing of the director's evident obsession with criminal characters, one becomes aware of the tragedy of a man whose inchoate feeling of guilt is nonetheless incapable of brokering true remorse or challenging his code of secrecy and setting his victims' minds at rest. There is a microcosm of a whole society here, if one cares to look for it. It is a last great performance from De Niro (and Pesci), in spite of the digital rejuvenation to which it is subjected.