How Are Guys Flawed? Let Us Count the Ways
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
What do men want? This reversal of Freud’s famous question drives John Krasinski’s screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s 1999 short-story collection “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men” into a blind alley. Compacted into an 80-minute mishmash of interviews, confessions and sketches, melded into a shaky mosaic, the answers from a cross section of men are shallow, self-serving and ultimately unenlightening.
“Brief Interviews” may be verbally dexterous and enthusiastically acted by the likes of Timothy Hutton, Christopher Meloni, Denis O’Hare, Ben Shenkman, Michael Cerveris and Bobby Cannavale. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3716 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 25 settembre 2009