"Report back to me when it makes sense."

[lagilman]

Caught "Burn After Reading" last night, and was awestruck. If one single thing had not worked perfectly, the entire movie would have fallen apart. But everything did -- the script, the actors, the direction, even the cinematography. Dark humor, yeah (although it really switches into gear in the last third) but the entire audience was letting out gasps of delighted/horrified laughter the entire showing. I described it to someone as "Mamet meets classic Woody Allen," even more than being a Coen Brothers film (although, really, in many way that is sort of the definition of a Coen Brothers film...)

I don't think there was a single off note in the entire thing.

And yes, I am shallow enough to spend much of the movie thinking "Clooney's hot even when he's playing a sex-sleazed idiot...."


And now I face the rest of my to-do list. Bleargh.