EVENING LAJOS KOLTAI 2007
Koltai, one of the least identifiable auteurs of modern times(1) directs a decaying skeleton draped in orange wax (played by the never-so-Crypt-Keeping Vanessa Redgrave) through a 2 hour ode to bay windows, tears that mix with snot on the upper lip, audience castration, and that pesky but industrious kill-joy, Thanatos. Claire Danes shows up a few minutes late for the audition, only to be green-screened into the entire film, while Glenn Close's naked forehead steals the show. I'll admit I got a bit choked up for Hugh Dancy's bi-sexual revelation moment-in-the-sun, but then Ms. Danes spoke a line. If Ethan Allen outlet stores were mortuaries, and if herpes is the new oysters, then maybe some of this drunken sermon might ring true. But they're not, so it doesn't and I just laughed my way through someone else's vicarious pain. In my defense, I currently reside upon coastal Maine.
List of injustices:
*Wise speak-easy pianist of African-American persuasion
*Toni Collette as a former Suicide Girl playing Sherlock to dying mom's vast store of dusty memories
*Like I said, Claire Danes
*Sunlight, exploited like it's going out of style
AND...
*Claire Danes tied with Eileen Atkins in Fairy Godmother fetish attire
1. Out to Sea and, among other transgressions, the Apollo to Dead Poets Society's Dionysus, The Emperor's Club
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Claire Danes used to live and study in my hometown. I knew even before someone told me because I always had this dull taste in my mouth, like when you take the Saltine challenge.
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