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Duke of Omnium

Decent musing on the nature -- and cost -- of fame. Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon are good, but Alison Lohman simply does not have the gravitas needed to pull off the central character of the reporter.

5 years 8 months ago

Where the Truth Lies feels to me lie Atom Egoyan is channeling Scorsese. The glitz and glamor, the narration, the decadence... But in shifting narrators, and making some of it less than reliable, Egoyan lets his own style shine through. No one can present secrets on screen like he can. So the film (based on a novel, which accounts for the least "Egoyan" elements) is about a fictional Martin & Lewis-type duo of entertainers (Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon) who meet with a young journalist (Alison Lohman) writing their definitive life story, though they are very cagey about a certain incident with a dead girl in their hotel room back in the 50s. And just to make things more intriguing, said journalist as a secret connection to one of them. The film was hampered by an NC-17 rating in the States for so-called graphic sex scenes, but it's really not that bad (oh you MCAA prudes). If I'm not a huge fan of the film, it's because of the Scrosese-isms/adaptation of the novel. I'm not a big fan of narration in films to begin with. But the way the mysteries, reveals, misleads and truths are built up makes it a solid effort, though perhaps not one to watch several times over.

8 years 10 months ago