I alway find it best when criticising a film's narrative not to doze off during it at least a dozen times.
I think it is a fantastic swansong to the careers of four great contributors to the cinema - and the Mafia genre in particular. De Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Scorsese looking back on four tremendous careers, and on truth and fiction in the movies, and in America.
Watched it three times now, and each time I think it's better.
It reminds me of Giant, where Rock Hudson Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean remade the western in the 50's as little more than teenagers and end up playing themselves made up to look ridiculously old. That illusion feels part of the storytelling, just as do these old actors playing themselves half a century younger.
I think it is a fantastic swansong to the careers of four great contributors to the cinema - and the Mafia genre in particular. De Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Scorsese looking back on four tremendous careers, and on truth and fiction in the movies, and in America.
Watched it three times now, and each time I think it's better.
It reminds me of Giant, where Rock Hudson Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean remade the western in the 50's as little more than teenagers and end up playing themselves made up to look ridiculously old. That illusion feels part of the storytelling, just as do these old actors playing themselves half a century younger.
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