A great film about love, about adolescence, about what (everything) that can happen to you in life. “Licorice Pizza”, with this curious title, coincides with the world that a great author of contemporary American cinema – Paul Thomas Anderson – could not leave behind, giving our troubled age the innocent and Gascon breath of the fabulous 70s. Fifteen-year-old Gary Valentine lived in the San Fernando Valley of those years and since childhood he dreams of being an actor. The day his yearbook photos are taken at his school, Gary meets Alana Kane, an older girl than him, and is immediately impressed. The two start dating, they start selling waterbeds, spending a lot of time together, under the banner of that great complicity that will turn out to be a great love. Together they will live many adventures and growing day after day, they will be able to fortify their relationship.
In that colorful, crazy and weird world, Anderson makes Gary and Alana run to meet each other every time the two move away, so much so that their story resembles a sort of existential road movie. At night and day, in offices and on the streets, between motorcycles, records and improvised parties, all those paradoxical events that initially divide the two, will instead end up uniting them, in a journey in stages where everything is revealed by the sweetness of their glances. and the tension of their bodies. Immersed in an American dream on which the night is about to fall, with their common faces, Hoffman (son of the late Philip Seymour) and the singer Haim, are perfect in embodying these guys who know about life, who dream and despair for the streets of America like nobody knows anymore. And that they run, they run, as if they were born to do that. “Baby, we were born to run,” the Boss once sang.
Direction: Paul Thomas Anderson; Interpreters: Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Tom Waits; Film script: Paul Thomas Anderson; Photography: Paul Thomas Anderson, Bommi Baumann; Music: Jonny Greenwood; Assembly: Andy Jurgensen; Scenography: Florence Martin; Costumes: Mark Bridges. Distribution: Eagle Pictures. USA, 133’, 2021.
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18 March 2022 | 17:57
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