Il solista

The adaptation of Times columnist Steve Lopez's book hits all the wrong notes

Remember when Lloyd Bentsen told Dan Quayle, "I knew Jack Kennedy. . . . Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"? Well, I felt a little that way when it came to reviewing " The Soloist."
I could back up and write all this in the reviewer's traditional third person, but that feels disingenuous. After all, I do know Steve Lopez, whose wonderful Los Angeles Times columns and later book about his unlikely friendship with a gifted but deeply troubled street musician started everything. And I work with Lopez at The Times, which, in an unprecedented gesture, offered its newsroom as a set and has in general bound itself to this movie with remarkable fealty. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (5700 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 24 aprile 2009