Matthew McConaughey's film is great, Atom Egoyan's is terrible and Spain and Greece delineate Europe's human dysfunction
• San Sebastián report: Jake Gyllenhaal's double
• San Sebastián report: Beatlemania and horseplay
The San Sebastián film festival gave us this week the best and worst of what Hollywood acting had to offer. Matthew McConaughey's performance in Dallas Buyers Club – such a hit recently in Toronto – reconfirmed his startling career surge, giving a barnstormer turn from deep in the heart of Texas as the homophobic good ol' boy who has to think hard about his attitudes when he is diagnosed HIV positive. Aside from that, however, there was a terrible clunker from Atom Egoyan: Devil's Knot – a grisly mediocrity of a film: shallow, badly acted and pretty questionable.
It is based on the child murders in West Memphis in 1993 which led to unsafe convictions of three young men: goth...
• San Sebastián report: Jake Gyllenhaal's double
• San Sebastián report: Beatlemania and horseplay
The San Sebastián film festival gave us this week the best and worst of what Hollywood acting had to offer. Matthew McConaughey's performance in Dallas Buyers Club – such a hit recently in Toronto – reconfirmed his startling career surge, giving a barnstormer turn from deep in the heart of Texas as the homophobic good ol' boy who has to think hard about his attitudes when he is diagnosed HIV positive. Aside from that, however, there was a terrible clunker from Atom Egoyan: Devil's Knot – a grisly mediocrity of a film: shallow, badly acted and pretty questionable.
It is based on the child murders in West Memphis in 1993 which led to unsafe convictions of three young men: goth...
- 9/26/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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