2010, 15, Directed by Scott Cooper
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell
“Funny how fallin’ feels like flyin’ “, sings aged country star Bad Blake in Scott Cooper’s warm must-see Crazy Heart. Welcome to Jeff Bridges’ The Wrestler, in which he does not portray – but embodies – the loveable screw-up of a protagonist who lives off past glories purely due to his inability to stop drinking and driving those closest to him away. Bridges, performing to what can be described as the most deserved Oscar-winning standard there has been for a while, is Bad Blake. And don’t you doubt it. Support in the form of a terrific Maggie Gyllenhaal as the reporter who endears herself to Blake, and a cool, ever-versatile, if a little random Colin Farrell adds to the venture. The T. Bone Burnett written classics layer an authentic feeling to the equation also. If Cooper and Bridges are fallin’, they must certainly be soaring.
4/5
4/5
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