sive ones, displayed a portrait
of Dean (usually Stock’s ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ shot,
which we see captured here),
but now Dean is as forgotten as
Clift and Garfield, while most
know Brando as “the fat, crazy
guy.” Maybe if Dean had lived,
he’d have become a similar object of ridicule, or perhaps he’d
have faded into TV movie ob-
scurity. His three films haven’t
aged well, and Dean even comments here on how he feels
East of Eden is too over the top.
That’s not a criticism you can
level at Life, a movie so subtle
many may find it alienating, but
through DeHaan we get to see
Dean as the melodramatic cinema of the ‘50s never allowed
us to - an Ordinary Joe.
There’s a generation now that
probably doesn’t know who Dean is.
Life
4 stars out of 5
Directed by: Anton Corbijn
Starring:
Robert Pattinson, Dane DeHaan, Joel Edgerton,
Alessandra Mastronardi, Ben Kingsley
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