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<strong><u>Joker: Folie À Deux (15, 138 mins)</u></strong><br> <br> Verdict: Bold, brilliant sequel <br> <br> <br> <br> Rating:<br> <br> <br> <br> <u>A Different Man (15, 112 mins)</u><br> <br> Verdict: A touching satire  <br> <br> <br> <br> Rating:<br> <br> <br> <br> Venice, a city long associated with masks and masquerades, was the <br> <br> perfect place to unveil Joker five years ago; and last month, at the venerable film festival there, it was followed by the sequel, Joker:<br> <br> Folie À Deux.<br> <br> <br> <br> The director is again Todd Phillips, with Joaquin Phoenix once more in the title role, this time joined <br> <br> by Lady Gaga as what I suppose we must call the love interest,<br> <br> although that would undervalue her wonderful performance.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> We've known since A Star Is Born in 2018 that she can act, but she really is terrific in a bad-girl role.<br> <br> They'd have loved her at St Trinian's.<br> <br> <br> <br> This film is audaciously different in style from the original,<br> <br> not as electrifying, but bold and brilliant all the same.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Arthur is now behind bars, waiting to see whether he <br> <br> will be judged sane enough to stand trial for murder,<br> <br> and in the meantime enjoying his celebrity status with fellow prisoners and even the warders, <br> <br> one of whom, a sadistic Irishman played by Brendan Gleeson, feeds him cigarettes in return for jokes.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <strong><u>Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga in sequel <br> <br> Joker: Folie À Deux</u></strong><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie a Deux - an American musical <br> <br> psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the Joker, with Lady Gaga joining the cast as his love interest, <br> <br> Harley Quinn<br> <br> <br> <br> Lady Gaga plays Lee, a fellow inmate on her way, we suppose, to becoming Joker's girlfriend Harley Quinn.<br> <br> The pair hit it off at a music therapy class, <br> <br> and are soon mutually smitten, but Lee makes it clear that she loves <br> <br> the dangerously charismatic Joker, 'clown prince of crime', not the <br> <br> gloomily introspective Arthur.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Read More<br> <br> <br> <br> <i><u>Megalopolis review: Coppola's self-indulgent <br> <br> comeback may be a MEGAFLOPOLIS</u></i><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Which is more real: the psychopath wearing the mask or the vulnerable fellow <br> <br> behind it? Either way, identity confusion is the theme of this film,<br> <br> which keeps being billed as a musical. <br> <br> <br> <br> It's not, really, although music looms large as an expression of Arthur and Lee's burgeoning <br> <br> love for <a href="https://rentry.co/upn52gtb">iqos one iluma</a> another.<br> <br> And there are a couple of swooning dance routines that make them look like psychotic <br> <br> versions of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in La La Land (2016).<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Moreover, it is while watching Vincente Minnelli's 1953 classic The Band Wagon that Lee, who claims to have been imprisoned <br> <br> for arson, sets fire to their prison wing.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> The ensuing chaos provides an excellent opportunity to <br> <br> escape, yet Phillips and his co-writer Scott Silver skilfully toy with our expectations throughout;<br> <br> each time we anticipate which way the narrative is going to go, it confounds us by wheeling off in another direction.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie a Deux - an American musical psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> For me, Joker was a near-masterpiece, and while this sequel doesn't scale those heady heights, it is still a gripping film about mental illness, writes <br> <br> Brian Viner <br> <br> <br> <br> Eventually, after Arthur's high-profile TV appearance with a smug interviewer played <br> <br> by Steve Coogan, it is time for the trial, with all of Gotham gripped by the subject of multiple personality disorder.<br> <br> Is the defendant accused of five murders Arthur,<br> <br> or is it Joker? His kindly lawyer (Catherine Keener) strives to show it <br> <br> is the former; Lee just as urgently wants him to identify as <br> <br> his demonic alter ego.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Read More<br> <br> <br> <br> <b><u>His Three Daughters review: Savour this exquisite <br> <br> elegy to death and sisterhood, writes BRIAN VINER</u></b><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> For me, Joker was a near-masterpiece, and while this sequel doesn't scale those heady <br> <br> heights, it is still a gripping film about mental illness; not <br> <br> quite comparable with all-time greats such as Psycho (1960) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest <br> <br> (1975), but not too far off.<br> <br> <br> <br> - Joker's Gotham, of course, is a lightly fictionalised version of New York <br> <br> City. The real thing is the backdrop to A Different Man, another absorbing story, splendidly written and directed by Aaron Schimberg,<br> <br> about an urban loner struggling with life.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> In the case of the troubled, self-conscious Edward (Sebastian Stan), an aspiring actor, that's apparently <br> <br> because he has a disfiguring craniofacial condition. <br> <br> Instructional corporate videos seem to be about as far <br> <br> as he can get in the acting world.<br> <br> <br> <br> There are obvious echoes of The Elephant Man (1980), and for that matter of recent release The Substance,<br> <br> in which Demi Moore's character, a former movie star 'disfigured' <br> <br> by a few wrinkles, finds a way of transforming into her own younger self.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>A still from the film A Different Man directed by <br> <br> Aaron Schimberg</b><br> <br> <br> <br> Here, Edward is told by a doctor that 'an alternative path has presented itself'.<br> <br> In other words, medical science has found a way to reverse his <br> <br> condition, turning him into a perfectly attractive middle-aged man.<br> <br> <br> <br> But Schimberg's point, made with great satirical swagger, is that Edward, despite his radical change in appearance,<br> <br> is still the same person underneath that he always was.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> In his former condition he was befriended by his pretty, charismatic neighbour, Ingrid (Renate Reinsve), a playwright.<br> <br> Now he is able to fall into bed with her, and to star in a play <br> <br> she has written about their relationship, little though she knows of his real identity.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> I was even reminded of Tootsie (1982) and Mrs Doubtfire (1993) <br> <br> as Edward's new persona fundamentally fails to alter who he actually is.<br> <br> This is illuminated by the arrival of Oswald, an Englishman with the same condition Edward once had,<br> <br> but popular, witty, confident, and gloriously played by Adam Pearson (who really does suffer from a disfiguring condition called neurofibromatosis).<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Pearson is probably best-known for his debut film, Jonathan Glazer's brilliant Under The Skin (2013).<br> <br> Which is apt, because this picture, too, is about what's under the skin.<br> <br> <br> <br> <u>-A longer review of Joker: Folie À Deux ran a month <br> <br> ago. Both films are in cinemas now.</u><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>  <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Paul Weller's film debut? That's entertainment!</b><br> <br> The 68th London Film Festival opens next week with the <br> <br> world premiere of Blitz, director Steve McQueen's drama set in London as the Luftwaffe's bombs rain down night after night.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Saoirse Ronan, for my money one of the most talented actresses of her generation, plays Rita, an East <br> <br> End mum whose son George (Elliott Heffernan) goes missing.<br> <br> <br> <br> It sounds intriguing even without the casting of The Jam's former front man Paul Weller — in his feature film debut — as <br> <br> Rita's father.<br> <br> <br> <br> I'm also very much looking forward to another world premiere, Joy, the story of the three brilliant British medical pioneers whose work on IVF <br> <br> led to the world's first 'test-tube' baby, Louise Brown, in 1978.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <u><i>Saoirse Ronan, Elliott Heffernan and Paul Weller in the film 'Blitz'</i></u><br> <br> <br> <br> It is directed by Ben Taylor, best-known for his TV work on shows such as Sex <br> <br> Education and Catastrophe, and stars Bill Nighy, James Norton and Thomasin McKenzie.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> I have heard great things about Conclave, the adaptation of <br> <br> Robert Harris's novel starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci.<br> <br> A couple of new documentaries catch the eye, too.<br> <br> One of them is made by actress Sadie Frost, whose directing <br> <br> debut was a film about Mary Quant. This time she turns to another fashion icon of the 1960s, with <br> <br> a feature called Twiggy.<br> <br> <br> <br> And Elton John: Never Too Late promises a 'uniquely intimate' look at the star's life and career.<br> <br> It's been made by his long-time partner David Furnish, so… we'll see.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <u><strong>For more details, visit bfi.org.uk/lff.</strong></u><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Lady Gaga
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