Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Sheltered relationships

Being Flynn (2012)

Written and directed by Paul Weitz this film based on “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” stars Robert De Niro, Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby and Julianne Moore. A man in his twenties works at a homeless shelter where he runs into his estranged father who is now homeless.

There is a lot to enjoy about this film that looks at both homelessness as the protagonist seeks to over come a number of issues relating to his parents. I liked the idea of the father and son fighting over narrative control of the story and the way it reflects how things often are in real life. Robert De Niro gives a really good performance as does Paul Dano but it would have been nice to see a little more of Julianne Moore.


4/5

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