My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

With filmmaker Werner Herzog ("Fitzcarraldo," "Grizzly Man," "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans") at the helm and David Lynch as an executive producer, it's no surprise that "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done" is such an eccentric, often dreamlike concoction. What is unexpected, however, is that the film manages to be flat and uninteresting, despite the juicy (or, at the very least, lurid) true story from 1979 that serves as this curio's inspiration. Michael Shannon, whose tedious performance here is a far cry from his Oscar-nominated turn in last year's " Revolutionary Road," stars as Brad, a disturbed, would-be actor who goes full-on batty after rehearsing the lead in a stage production of the Greek tragedy "Orestes," in which the title character kills his mother with a sword. [...]

di Gary Goldstein, articolo completo (2068 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 18 dicembre 2009