Tag: Phillip Seymour Hoffman
A Late Quartet shows what happens when four lives fall in and out of harmony
An experienced cellist’s carefully ordered life disintegrates when he is diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s.
A monomaniacal first violinist struggles with suppressed passions when a beautiful young student lays claim to his affections. A husband, an insecure second violinist, and wife, a brittle viola player, flounder when forced to confront the reality of their failing marriage.…
The Master is a meditation on faith, sex, and the duality of man
The Master is a difficult film to unreservedly love.
For one thing, it’s a far trickier beast than Paul Thomas Anderson’s previous world-beater, the relentless and aptly titled There Will Be Blood. There are no oil-rig explosions, no dairy beverage related analogies, though the film is certainly closer to it’s immediate predecessor in style, tone, and content than any other PTA’s directed.…