Birdman

Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts   d/ Alejandro Inarritu

A cinematic tour de force. We follow the story of an actor who long ago had played a superhero in films trying desperately to revive his career by launching a Broadway play based on the stories of Raymond Carver.

There were many things to love here: superb acting by all hands with many showcase scenes, non-stop steadicam work gave the film a breathless quality perfectly appropriate to the tone; humor, suspense, verisimilitude (Keaton was 1989's Batman), poignancy...

This was like a carnival ride...carrying us up, down, throwing us sideways, upside down, slowing down once in a while for an emotional spritz, eventually spitting us out to the sidewalk dazzled, bewildered, wondering what the hell we had just seen but smiling all the way home.

Kudos.

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