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...cinema; it has congealed to the point where every hug, tear and clumsy montage seem carefully choreographed. Refreshingly, Around the Bend, reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships that is only reinforced by the remarkably subtle performances of screen legends Christopher Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
Refreshingly, Around the Bend, director Jordan Roberts’ debut film, which won two awards at this year’s Montreal Film Festival (the Jury award and Best Actor for Christopher Walken), reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships...
...Roberts’ closeness to the narrative seeps into the film. The script, which Roberts spent seven years writing, is based heavily on his own tangled relationship with an absentee father, giving it a palpable authenticity that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of screen legends Walken and Sir Michael Caine...
...first shots of the film pan around a dusty attic, presenting bleached skulls and archaeological trinkets like a still life on a conveyor belt, until the camera settles on Henry Lair (Caine). Henry, the ailing patriarch of the fragmented Lair family, has just summoned his son Turner (Walken) to what he knows to be his deathbed...
...bitchy wit to screenwriter Paul Rudnick, the knowing tone to director Frank Oz and the cluttered ending to the focus groups. The snazzy cast--including Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler and, as the makeover masterminds who have "top-secret contracts with the Pentagon, Apple and Mattel," Glenn Close and Christopher Walken--really sinks its fangs into Rudnick's poisoned apple...