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What is so dreadful about unearned fame and undeserved riches that warrants this faux-Antonioni despair?
At last, Adam Goldberg has given us his 8 1/2. It's an ambitious rumination on fame, reality, love, loss and regret that falls so far short, he should have called it 2 1/8.
Working with a self-consciously urgent, neo-noir style, Goldberg seems intent on expressing a meaningful message of some kind. It's too bad, then, that he has chosen such a shallow subject.
Directed by the young actor Adam Goldberg, "I Love Your Work is an attempt to say something interesting about modern celebrity.
I Love Your Work gets the dissonance of the celebrity lifestyle to a T. But the self-reflexive strategy of Goldberg and co-writer Adrian Butchart is too brainy by half.
I Love Your Work promises with its very title to be self-conscious, self-deprecating, self-glorifying, and self-mockingly witty.
It's an intriguing mish-mash, a meta-textual stew that Goldberg, unfortunately, paints with a big, thick brush and then underlines with fat charcoal pencils.
So many questions are raised from both sides of the celebrity fence that the film could only have been made by someone as on-the-edge of stardom as [Goldberg].
It's too busy trying to be clever that it forgets to give us anything that's actually interesting.
a pointless stew
When Ricci's dreamgirl, finally fed up with Gray's insanity, chastises him with "You're obvious," it's a sentiment also applicable to the film itself.
An edgeless one man show by Ribisi that acts like being insane.
I personally believe this movie is way underrated, I suppose to like a movie of this calibre one needs to have an acquired taste to it. It flies beneath the radar because it tackles I suppose what you could call the 'truth' of the movie business and even the human psyche as a whole. The first time I saw simply the end of it, and it awed me...that I recommended it to Dij but hadn't seen the film in its entirety to earlier today. In this movie we learn of an actor, Gray Evans [Ribsi], who is married to actress, Mia Lang [Potente] and their marriage is suffering terribly. On top of this he finds that he is slowly losing his grips upon reality and the entire story becomes his entire paranoid obsession with a young film student, John Eckhart [Jackson]. This young character seems to remind him of himself before he caught the famous bug and became a completely different person. Various things occur where he tries to mend his relationship with Mia, or when he tries to portray their relationship to the public as completely normal whilst the tabloids proclaim them being 'stormy and tempestuous'. There are some parts in this film that get extremely confusing as it shows how easily his dreams become lucid and although he thinks they are real they just devour him completely. The finale, which I'm not going to share is quite something indeed. An ironic metaphor in itself. What drew me to this film was the dark premise of the story, Franka Potente [who is one of my favourite actresses] and Ribsi, of course. This movie simply shows that Ribsi is quite believable in playing yet another role where one is masquerading as 'normal' person whilst facing turmoils within themselves. Not for everyone, and I've noticed many actually aren't interested at all in this. I find this story quite deep and utterly terrifying.
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Good film, kind've weird and a little disturbing though. Great performance by Giovanni Ribisi.
[font=Century Gothic]In "I Love Your Work", Gray(Giovanni Ribisi) apparently has it all. He is a famous movie star, married to a beautiful actress, Mia(Franka Potente), and is also an amateur photographer. But that veneer is starting to crack. His marriage is coming apart at the seams, Elvis Costello is leaving messages and Gray fears he is being stalked. One day, he wanders into the safe haven of a video store where he meets store employee John(Joshua Jackson), a fan, and his girlfriend, Jane(Marisa Coughlan), an artist.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"I Love Your Work" is an intriguing movie about the price of fame and being careful what you ask for. But it also serves as a commentary on the symbiotic relationship between the audience and the performers and what each hopes to gain in the bargain.[/font]
Very much like an acid trip. Not anything worth remembering.
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