Slipstream
Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins took a turn behind the camera for the first time since 1996's August with this mind-bending fantasy that he also wrote and stars in. Hopkins plays Felix Bonhoeffer a screenwriter with a habit of getting lost in his own head. Felix begins to doubt reality itself, though, when the real world and the one in his imagination begin to blend together. Also starring Christian Slater and John Turturro, Slipstream premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Anthony Hopkins
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Gavin Grazer, Stella Arroyave, Christian Slater,John Turturro
Now is Slipstream worth seeing? I think so, if you'll actively engage your sympathy with Hopkins' attempt to do something tricky and difficult. If you want to lie back and let the movie come to you, you may be lying there a long time.
Amusing cinematic buffoonery by a man poking fun at movie conventions and the movie business itself.
Taking a cue from David Lynch, Hopkins fractures the narrative from the first frame, but unlike Lynch he doesn't go far enough in establishing a context from which to deviate. If the story fragments we're watching spring from the same mind, in other words, it's not obvious.
Bold, experimental, off-the-wall kicky and utterly exasperating.
If not exactly dull, Hopkins' stream-of-consciousness rant is nonetheless self-indulgent and crammed with bits of business that never add up to anything much.
Most Original Poster
Golden Trailer Awards (2008)
Anthony Hopkins
Locarno International Film Festival (2007)
Anthony Hopkins
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival (2007)
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