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One Hour Photo (2002)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle
Screenwriter: Mark Romanek
Producer: Christine Vachon, Stanley J. Wlodkowski, Pamela Koffler
Composer: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
Reviews
The stylistic flourishes are there, but they're done quietly and slowly, and besides, our attention is drawn to Williams. This is a fascinating and piercing character study, unpredictable in small ways that are made to seem vitally important.
Robin Williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of Bicentennial Man in favour of an altogether darker side.
The craftsmanship is so strenuously neat that every frame should be awarded a gold star, but there isn't a breath of spontaneous life.
Robin Williams creates a character who earns our revulsion--and somehow also our sympathy.
Robin Williams' good work in contained in an uneven film, whose first half is an intriguing chronicle of urban alienation, but second part deteriorates into a presposterous thriller with a subplot of stalking and revenge--not unlike Fatal Attraction
What brings the film to a level beyond is Williams's superb performance and, in turn, Romanek's carefully calibrated direction.
A music video is like espresso: a lot of visual power compressed into five minutes. A movie needs to know something of the rhythms of everyday life, or else the audience get dizzy and exhausted.
This isn't the Williams of Mrs. Doubtfire or, thank heavens, Jack or What Dreams May Come.
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