The eighth film directed by the actor and director is a genuine American Graffiti-like plot
The Tender Bar is the eighth film directed by George Clooney, in a period of star abstinence, and also one of his best and most inspired, where the real American graffiti is found. You can see it now on Amazon Prime and taken from one of the most formidable American memoirs, published by Pickwick, “The bar of great hopes”, by the Pulitzer Prize Winner JR Moheringer, made of the raw material of the American dream. It is the autobiography, the childhood of a non-boss, oppressed by the lack of an invisible father (except as the voice of dee jay on the radio), but who finds human cohesion and a reason to exist in the smoky bar of Uncle Charlie, Long Island, a meeting point for a colorful clientele, cohesive and not refractory to alcohol. The “bar flies” that were talked about years ago in a film with Dunaway and Rourke and that have never set; but also a place of culture, it is called Dickens in honor of the great writer to whom a shelf next to whiskey is dedicated. And here, thanks to his uncle, whom our JR, neuroticized by the name he recalls to Dallas, learns to love literature, books and want to be part of them. Mother Dorothy, who has run into a blind alley because of her wrong husband, lives in Arizona and cares that her son, at least he, who lives in the large patriarchal home of his grandfather (Christoper Lloyd) with aunts and cousins, will be able to enroll in Yale , where they start from the fundamentals, ie Homer. So it will be.
Ours, after a series of literary and sentimental apprenticeships (Do you want there to be no affair with a moneyed college friend?), he joins the fray after learning the classics and eventually gets the New York Times spot where he becomes a signature star. The film worked on small emotions, with cultured quotations, observing with a European eye, almost Truffaut-like, a typically American adolescence with a great Ben Affleck who, regardless of being overweight, perfectly embodies the uncle of an extraordinary young actor like Tye Sheridan, who does not it looks 25 years old and on which all the amarcord of the lost and never found adolescence of the world will converge. She is a young promise who made her fifteen-year-old debut with Terrence Malick in “The tree of life” and then won the Mastroianni award in Venice in 2013 with “Joe”. Clooney’s film is the search for a father but of course, even without posters , the director attentive to the sociological becoming of an America often in class struggle and precise in identifying the crucial points of the 80s, his graffiti, those after Lucas even if Sinatra remains popular: when junior graduates from Yale in fact in 1986 Thanks to the fluid rhythm of the story, in which it is easy to trace the truth of a life lived and suffered, and to the harmony of a perfect cast, the film could have, at another time, a career in theaters but still today to be recommended as occasion of a varied, funny, melancholy and above all never useless or casual story.
March 2, 2022 (change March 2, 2022 | 15:16)
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