Weekend Film Reviews
Changeling; I've Loved You So Long
Clint Eastwood's Changeling is set in Los Angeles in the late 1920's, but connections are missing or scrambled between the filmmaking and the period, between the co-stars -- Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, and the characters they play… It's a shock to see Kristin Scott Thomas in the first shot of I've Loved You So Long. She's bleakness personified, and it's not the sort of pretend bleakness that make-up and lighting can bestow on a beautiful face…
By Joe Morgenstern • • 4m ListenClint Eastwood's Changeling is set in Los Angeles in the late 1920's, but connections are missing or scrambled between the filmmaking and the period, between the co-stars -- Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, and the characters they play…
It's a shock to see Kristin Scott Thomas in the first shot of I've Loved You So Long. She's bleakness personified, and it's not the sort of pretend bleakness that make-up and lighting can bestow on a beautiful face…