Adam Resurrected

Treated Like a Dog, in War and Madness

With his dark whirlpool eyes and sensual clown's mouth, Jeff Goldblum has always suggested an actor poised to reveal a thousand faces, many of them nightmarish apparitions. In “The Fly” we saw a few of them; more emerge in the Holocaust survivor drama “Adam Resurrected.” The movie's unsettling opening image is a close-up of his character, Adam Stein, in clown makeup, rolling his left eye while keeping the right stationary.
In no particular order Mr. Goldblum's shape-shifting character is an imperious circus magician and knife thrower, a dog whisperer, a wily seducer, a raging drunk and a traumatized observer of genocide. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4176 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 12 dicembre 2008