Year: 2004 Directed by: Charles Shier
Distribution: UIP
-Alfie-Alfred Elkins is a young boy from Manhattan who does the good life working for a small firm Limousine rent. Alfie, torn between his job as driver and his dreams of independence, disarmingly carefree lives with his years of fleeting encounters, clubs, and many beautiful girls that he routinely betrays never feel ready for a long-term history. But one day change the lives of Alfie register: find out where to have a child, the young will have to question his lifestyle and seriously reflect on his mistakes ...
Remake of discrete bill of a film released at the end of the seventies and starred in the original, by a wonderful Michael Caine. The original Alfie divided audiences and critics who judged him strong and disorienting, but fun and innovative. Now, nearly twenty years later, the confused character of Alfred Elkins lives on in the role of Jude Law in what might be called a true test of an actor, where the direction of Charles Shier intended only as a mere outline.
The new film is shot with a prevalence of close-ups and rapid separation that recall the proper photography, pop-art of the last thirty years. Alfie is a long monologue about the insecurities reflective of our times that forces the viewer to assume the role of confidant of the protagonist, to the detriment of his emotional involvement. On the other hand, if the director is academic, the performers are really good at playing characters who seem to come out, ethereal, from a reality that seems assume, with the continuing of the story, symbolic values. Noteworthy music, performed by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart, who bring to mind the melancholy secret of the seventies. "Alfie" provoke a mixed reaction: some might like it for its originality, others hate him for his irresolution.
Diego Altobelli (2004)
-Alfie-Alfred Elkins is a young boy from Manhattan who does the good life working for a small firm Limousine rent. Alfie, torn between his job as driver and his dreams of independence, disarmingly carefree lives with his years of fleeting encounters, clubs, and many beautiful girls that he routinely betrays never feel ready for a long-term history. But one day change the lives of Alfie register: find out where to have a child, the young will have to question his lifestyle and seriously reflect on his mistakes ...
Remake of discrete bill of a film released at the end of the seventies and starred in the original, by a wonderful Michael Caine. The original Alfie divided audiences and critics who judged him strong and disorienting, but fun and innovative. Now, nearly twenty years later, the confused character of Alfred Elkins lives on in the role of Jude Law in what might be called a true test of an actor, where the direction of Charles Shier intended only as a mere outline.
The new film is shot with a prevalence of close-ups and rapid separation that recall the proper photography, pop-art of the last thirty years. Alfie is a long monologue about the insecurities reflective of our times that forces the viewer to assume the role of confidant of the protagonist, to the detriment of his emotional involvement. On the other hand, if the director is academic, the performers are really good at playing characters who seem to come out, ethereal, from a reality that seems assume, with the continuing of the story, symbolic values. Noteworthy music, performed by Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart, who bring to mind the melancholy secret of the seventies. "Alfie" provoke a mixed reaction: some might like it for its originality, others hate him for his irresolution.
Diego Altobelli (2004)
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