Great review Roy, of a quietly wonderful film. I didn't make me cry but I did cry out at Jojo's sudden desperate realization, a moment which has stayed with me for weeks after seeing the film. Taika Waititi ... genius, is perfectly accurate and his goofy Hitler lightens the film until getting near the end when he turns into the jarringly sinister manipulator.
I truly loved this film and all the performances in it, especially, as you say, the brilliant child actors and the dazzling turns of all of the adults. Rockwell and Johanssen especially are really starting to hit their straps.
Waititi’s great. He was the director who made the most recent Thor movie watchable (indeed, fun to watch).
And What We Do in the Shadows is fantastic. Really. (We’ve just rewatched it.) One of those films you and your friends will be quoting lines from to each other for the test of your lives.
When the cockroaches and Keith Richards are basking in the radioactive glow of New York, someone will be making a nonacetate film about a kid and an imaginary Trump.
Too bad the New Yorker couldn't have run your review instead of this nonsense: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/springtime-for-nazis-how-the-satire-of-jojo-rabbit-backfires (in which making fun of Nazis is a *bad* thing and has been done too often).
I loved this review. Very anxious to see this film myself.
Great review Roy, of a quietly wonderful film. I didn't make me cry but I did cry out at Jojo's sudden desperate realization, a moment which has stayed with me for weeks after seeing the film. Taika Waititi ... genius, is perfectly accurate and his goofy Hitler lightens the film until getting near the end when he turns into the jarringly sinister manipulator.
I truly loved this film and all the performances in it, especially, as you say, the brilliant child actors and the dazzling turns of all of the adults. Rockwell and Johanssen especially are really starting to hit their straps.
Five stars.
Oh, no, Roy... have you not seen What We Do in the Shadows?? Please put it on your list. You will not be disappointed.
Waititi’s great. He was the director who made the most recent Thor movie watchable (indeed, fun to watch).
And What We Do in the Shadows is fantastic. Really. (We’ve just rewatched it.) One of those films you and your friends will be quoting lines from to each other for the test of your lives.
I don’t usually go to films with Nazis, but when I do I think “Fucking Nazis, is there anything that can make the Holocaust funny?”
When the cockroaches and Keith Richards are basking in the radioactive glow of New York, someone will be making a nonacetate film about a kid and an imaginary Trump.