Facing Dreams, Reality and the Music
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
“The Good Night” might be described as a Dudley Moore movie without its namesake, who died five years ago. You know the subgenre: a bumbling, tippling fantasist becomes besotted with a dream girl and forsakes reason to wallow in his fantasy. In this variation, the farce has been tamped down to whimsy.
Sometimes he is married, sometimes not. In “The Good Night,” written and directed by Jake Paltrow, the Moore surrogate, Gary Sheller (Martin Freeman), is a single guy in his mid-30s whose relationship with Dora (the director’s sister, Gwyneth Paltrow), his nagging live-in girlfriend of seven years, has turned to ashes. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3475 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 5 ottobre 2007
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