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Carlos Amezcua, Curtis Armstrong, Robert Benz, Todd Berger, Joe Campana, Chris Ciulla, Rebekah Del Rio, Aaron Dillar, Nora Dunn, Shari Dunn |
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Los Angeles, rok 2008. Kulminacja niespotykanych dotąd upałów przypada na Dzień Niepodległości. Na zaplanowanym tego dnia przyjęciu zbiegają się losy filmowego gwiazdora dotkniętego amnezją, byłej gwiazdy porno i ekscentrycznych postaci śmietanki Hollywoodu. Niespotykane połączenie humoru, fantastyki i musicalu.
Well, filmmakers should aim high, they say. And Richard Kelly shot the moon on his highly-anticipated follow-up to cult sensation Donnie Darko, which expands the apocalyptic mood of that movie and blows it up tenfold. Set during the election season of 2008, Southland Tales proposes a series of apparently linked events: the reappearance of a vanished movie star ( Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ), now an amnesiac, the bizarre doubling of a policeman ( Seann William Scott in two roles), the development of an energy source from ocean waves, and the presence of an Iraq War veteran ( Justin Timberlake ) who seems to be watching everything, and narrating some of it. Not that the narration helps, even with voice-over (reportedly added after the film's disastrous debut at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival), Southland Tales doesn't come close to making sense, let alone at the minimum level of dangling a carrot to lead the audience along (even Mulholland Drive had a semblance of murder mystery to be solved, or not). The cast is loaded with Saturday Night Live cut-ups, but only Jon Lovitz connects, and in other roles people like Sarah Michelle Gellar, Christopher Lambert, Bai Ling, and John Larroquette are utterly mystifying, by no fault of their own. In some of the musical sequences Kelly gets in stride, but it's easy to create drama in a three-minute music video, and harder to do over two and a half hours. Some top critics rushed to champion the movie, as though flying in the face of philistinism, so feel free to try out this incoherent pastiche for yourself. -- Robert Horton
LOS ANGELES, 2008. Southland Tales is a darkly comic, futuristic epic set over the course of three days as the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster, in an America under the thumb of the sinister all-seeing agency US-Ident. A large ensemble cast of characters inlcudes Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), an action star stricken with amnesia, Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a porn star with her own reality TV project, and Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott), a cop who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. Time travel, terrorism and the End Of The World collide with apocalyptic results in Southland Tales, the dazzling new film from the writer / director of Donnie Darko.
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