Polgon's entertainment team is on the ground the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, bringing you first a look at what are some of the best blockbuster offerings of the year. Here is what you need to know before these indie films make their theater, streaming services, and cinematic zeitgeist.
Logline: Before Alice went to Wonderland and Peter Pan ruled the neverland, they were brothers in a family full of love, dark secrets and loss.
Longerline: Director Brenda Chapman has been working behind the scenes in the animated series and features for decades, even after co-directing DreamWorks & # 39; The Prince of Egypt, made headlines when she became the first female director of Pstrong, in 2012 & # 39; s Courage. After that he made headlines again after Wright fired him from the job and passed it on to one of his teammates, a move that looked highly questionable due to recent revelations about open sex culture, sexual harassment, and systematic suggestions for women's names on Pstrong.
Chapman has said that afterwards he has learned not to sell his original ideas to studios, but that he is willing to work as an employment director. That's how he started there Come on, which came to him as a script completed by Marissa Kate Goodhill. It is her first award-winning performance known as a solo, and her first live-action film, but it was put together by combining a fantasy claim with an adult role revealed Courage
Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo co-star as Rose and Jack, a British couple who got married across class lines, and now live in a book-dominated world at home in London without a defined but Victorian-esque era. Their three children, David (Reece Yates), Peter (Jordan A. Nash), and Alice (Keira Chansa) are happy children with active thoughts, transforming the world around them into a Technicolor CGI adventure, full of pirates and a wealth of takeaways.
Then tragedy strikes the family, and everyone escapes the truth in different ways. But Peter and Alice go back, to visions that show where they ended up: Alice in a magical world full of rabid rabbits and fierce queens, and Peter into a different magical world where she can avoid adult misery and responsibility forever.
Average rating: "It is no time to grow up, Alice. It will never . You'll see! & # 39; ”
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What is it trying to do? In many ways, Come on would transfer Terry Gilliam's movie. Like Gilliam's films, it is scattered and confusing, at times pleasant and sometimes surprisingly, with vague, expressive ideas totally incompatible with the shortcomings of ambiguity and timeliness. But most of all, it has risen to the depths of Gilliam's heart as a way to escape from the worst parts of the world. Like other stories that paint the Peter Pan mythos (Hook it is especially memorable), Come on he focuses on the emotional difficulties and responsibilities of adulthood, and in ways that children are free to ignore all of these things and live in the world that they can define themselves. The dream interpretation of escape: the story of how much better magic and childhood are than the reality of adolescence.
Does it get there? It's a weird message for the film, when it looks like it's finally concluding (as Glliam repeatedly has it) that nonsense suggests the reality, and that there is no reason to refuse to grow up. And it's fun Come on Sales often feel overflowing and forced. Oyelowo offers a sophisticated, sophisticated performance, but Jolie feels like she's still playing Maleficent, with far less camp and facial expressions. And the performance of the children is wide, brushes, and will be done in a way, sometimes keeping the audience away.
Some parts that were killed a lot better Come on In this fact grew the film criticized it, and its personality brings it to a different imagination. Elders in Come on they all focus on a complex relationship: Jack's history as a gambling addict leaves him with mysterious debts, a subhumanity of James (David Gyasi), while Rose's sister Eleanor (Anna Chancellor) openly condemns Rose for marrying a craftsman, and goes on a rampage. their children have no way of proper upbringing. Even these stories have deep layers: Eleanor is disturbing the family enough to get herself a little worldly, but her misery over having children, and her longing to reveal her mother's side, is clear enough for her to benefit too. James is clearly in the limelight, but his connection with Jack means that the movie's all-seeing art is filled with frustration and longing for his own.
The fact-vs.-reality structure would use the same ratio of problem. Tasty parts are often played: Chapman shows kids' looks with special visual effects that turn their dueling rods into swords in between turns, or turn an old whipping boat into a small pirate gallery. It is noteworthy, though, that the end-to-end layers do not affect the real-world consequences, and without regard to whether Alice and Peter find Wonderland and neverland, create it, or somewhere in between.
What does that mean for us? There are many Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland watch games Chapman opens and closes Come on chronicle of adult reading Alice (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) Yeats & # 39; "Baby Rock" for his children, and among those bookings, there are many more literary ideas. Come on it fills Peter and Alice's world with precise details of everything from the crocodile eating Captain Hook's hand to the "Red Off & # 39; s head!". There are so many obscure viewers watching that they start to feel a lot like a reference. When Peter and Alice meet a goofy haberdasher (played by Cord"(Clark (Peterske)), taking out the arrows and regular lines of the Mad Hatter, it's not hard to step out of the movie and wonder what's really true in this regard, and whether the film's ever-expanding efforts and inquisitiveness can survive the dramatic.
But if nothing else, the design and cinematography are amazing. Chapman's colorful palette is rich and charming, and with the transportive nature of the boxing music scene, it conveys the idea that the entire movie takes place inside a kindergarten filled with well-stocked toys. Audiences may object to the behavior of this movie, but may be caught in the making.
The most memorable moment: At one point in the movie, Rose is so worried about the latest incidents that she turns to alcohol for relief. When Alice catches Rose in one knock, she decides on her mother's special drink a magical potion, probably because it's stored in a crystal decanter container. When Alice has her emotional problems, she steals the trash and says, “Amazing magic, please get me out of here!” Before throwing in the towel. It's a gift of "same, girl!" We are waiting to happen.
When can we see it? Come on it is a private product paid for at Sundance, and is currently seeking distribution.
