11/29/2022 0 Comments Uncut gems review
This feels like Chekov’s Attractive Younger Man, and really feels like we should put that to the side we will revisit later. The whole time talking about the photos she took of an up and coming performer The Weeknd. The other side of the coin from Dinah is his girlfriend Julia De Fiore one of his employees embodied by Julia Fox who we first meet lounging around in bed with a friend trying to placate and get Howard to chill out and join them. Dinah could be a caricature of an angry woman if not handled properly, but the Safdie Brothers and Idina Menzel deftly land us the audience understanding where she is and why she is at the point she has come to with Howard, true frustration and disgust. And if I had my way, I would never see you again. Her screentime is nothing but a pleasure, from watching her size up her broken, sad husband without saying a word to the eviscerating lines when Howard asks for her to reconsider the divorce, “I think you are the most annoying person I have ever met. Howard’s wife Dinah is played by Idina Menzel that is barely holding together the household while she awaits for a divorce from Howard. There are so many actors that are putting in performances that are meeting and supporting Sandler’s level of intensity and help make this film a fully realized, fleshed out world that you get lost in for 2 hours and 15 minutes. A total travesty that the Academy didn’t recognize a role and actor that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Just describing this scene to others brings your reviewer to tears and triggers a deep, empathetic sadness the portrayal of Howard Ratner by Sandler. The moment where he hides in his office after getting his nose broken, tossed in a fountain and calls the front of his gem shop to tell everyone to go home he doesn’t want to work is punctuated with is girlfriend entering and his barely comprehensible squawk of, “Don’t look at me, please.”, finally breaking all the way down and crying hiding his face bemoaning, “I am so sad. Adam Sandler is a black hole of despair and sadness in this film, his moments of elation are undercut by severe sadness with the reality of this man’s underlying inability to not cause his own doom and demise. The entire film is anchored by a performance that really should have taken the Oscar for best actor over Joaquin Phoenix, and it wasn’t even nominated. #UNCUT GEMS REVIEW PROFESSIONAL#They are able to get extraordinary performances out of season professional actors and first time actors alike, and I think that is one of the things that make the Safdie Brothers unique and a duo I have added to my short list of I will see anything and everything they do from now on. I want to transition to the acting but in order to I think there is one last note that needs to happen with regards to the directors. The Sadfie Brothers ( Benny & Josh) leverage their native New Yorker background and pulled inspiration from stories from their father who worked as a salesman / runner in Manhattan’s Diamond District, and today I revisited the interview with them by Sean Fennessey on The Big Picture and was reminded just how long they worked on this film and that the script went through over 160 iterations as casting changed. The genre of films is best described as uncomfortable, pressure filled films and they get bonus points is for setting them in New York City. I have spent more time thinking about this film then almost any other since 2019, it is really the rosetta stone film that unlocked a specific genre of film that I am incredibly drawn too. #UNCUT GEMS REVIEW MOVIE#Upon my first watch of Uncut Gems I walked out of the theater feeling exhausted and really didn’t think I liked this film, but since then this movie has lived rent free in my brain. #UNCUT GEMS REVIEW CRACKED#This film has cracked into my top four on my Letterboxd profile. I recently purchased the Criterion Collection 4K release of this film so this is the watching experience I am going to discuss in this review not the theatrical experience from back in 2019. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win. #UNCUT GEMS REVIEW SERIES#Synopsis: A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime.
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