Me and Orson Welles

The famed director, as played by Christian McKay, can't help but be larger than life, even with Claire Danes and Zac Efron along for the ride.

"Me and Orson Welles" is a frothy backstage pass, courtesy of director Richard Linklater, to the early days of the great director (that would be Welles) during a stint as the mercurial head of the Mercury Theater Company in 1937. Adapted from Robert Kaplow's novel, the "Me" is a teenager whose coming-of-age story unfolds during the staging of Welles' groundbreaking reimagining of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar as a '30s-era Fascist dictator. The teen in question is Richard Samuels, played by "High School Musical" heartthrob Zac Efron, a senior who slips out of class and into NYC only to get swept up in Welles' retinue, with a small part tossed his way as a bone. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (2991 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 novembre 2009