Crazy Heart

Jeff Bridges is on the road to an Oscar as hard-living country singer Bad Blake. Excellent music and Colin Farrell's impressive turn as a Blake protege and rival are added bonuses.

There's a powerful symmetry at work in "Crazy Heart" that's impossible to resist. It's a parallel between protagonist Bad Blake, a country singer whose entire life has led him to a nadir of disintegration, and star Jeff Bridges, whose exceptional film choices have put him at the height of his powers just in time to make Mr. Blake the capstone role of his career. It's a mark of how fine a performance Bridges gives that it succeeds beautifully even though the besotted, bedeviled country singer has been an overly familiar popular culture staple (Rip Torn in "Payday," Robert Duvall in "Tender Mercies," Hank Williams and Merle Haggard in their own lives) for forever. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4889 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 16 dicembre 2009