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Paul Thomas Anderson describes disproportionate love in Licorice Pizza in 1970s California.
Drama
Licorice Pizza, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 133 min. K7. ★★★★
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the leading directors of American contemporary cinema. Of his films in particular Magnolia (1999) and There Will Be Blood (2007) can already be counted as modern classics of American cinema.
Anderson may move within a particular genre, but can be pretty sure he’s not making a genre-specific film. Licorice Pizza may be considered a romantic comedy or a teen comedy, but Anderson avoids all the clichés of these genres and once again makes a very personal, peculiar film. Licorice Pizza has received Oscar nominations for Best Direction, Original Screenplay and also for Best Picture.
Licorice Pizza located around 1973–1974. The director, who was born in 1970, has not started to remember his own youth here. He has based the film on a street scene with a photographer taking a school photo and a student from China and a friend Gary Goetzmanin to the stories of this life.
Goetzman had been a child actor in his life, a waterbed merchant and a pinball salon runner. All of this is also there Licorice Pizzan another protagonist, Gary Valentine, played by a great actress who died relatively young Philip Seymour Hoffman son Cooper Hoffman.
15-year-old Gary meets 25-year-old Alana Kane, who organizes yearbook photographs at her school, and falls in love. Alana considers the boy a teenager, but still has some interest in him. It begins Gary and Alana’s long journey together from friends and business associates to love.
Anderson’s previous ones from the movies Licorice Pizza most reminiscent Inherent Vicea (2014). The structure of both is loose and extremely meandering – and at the same time cleverly ironing the genre underlying both films.
Anderson’s films are often kind of like having to step into their world in a way. If you just start to follow them half-heartedly, you can lose a lot and even get bored. Licorice Pizza is just such an Anderson film.
It wanders and meanders, stops at something that seems irrelevant, and continues its turn to the next stage. But all the while there is both an accurate observation of the asymmetry of interpersonal relationships and a transient picture of time. And also humor.
Fragmentation gives rise to fullness, and in the end, Gary and Alana’s seemingly disproportionate and broken love story is far more believable than the traditional romances of teen comedies.
Events in the background lives California of the 1970s, which is being marked by the oil crisis and the rising environmental awareness of political campaigns. In the background of the events are a number of 1970s pop songs, and not the most familiar, David Bowien Life is Mars except for. Others include Nina Simonen July TreeThe Doorsin Peace Frog, Paul McCartney & Wingsin Let Me Roll It and Sonny & Cherin But You’re Mine.
Anderson has picked up the vaguely disguised real-life characters in the side roles of his film: Sean Pennin movie star Jack Holden is obvious William Holden and Christine Ebersolen Lucy Doolittle is your TV comedian Lucille Ball. A legendary (and legendary lunatic) filmmaker Jon Peters gets anyway Bradley Cooperin keep its own name.
Tips In the direction of Hollywood, you can also find that in the small parts, among other things, they spin Steven Spielbergin daughters and Jack Nicholsonin son. And Leonardo DiCaprion father priest.
Familiar with the band Haim Alana Haim makes a great debut in the role of Alana. Alana’s sisters are performed by her own sisters Danielle and Barrier i.e. the other members of the pop band Haim. Air, for just before Licorice Pizza Anderson directed five music videos for the band Haim.
Haim’s family is present in its entirety, as the parents of Kanen’s sisters perform Moti and Donna Haim.
What about what that Licorice Pizza that gave the whole thing its name, which isn’t even mentioned in the movie? It was a record-breaking chain in Southern California in the 1970s that sold, of course, vinyls, or licorice pizzas.
Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, producers Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper.
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