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[dropcap]Ο[/dropcap] Johnny Depp δεν είναι σε καλή κατάσταση τα τελευταία χρόνια, ούτε όσον αφορά την καριέρα του, αλλά ούτε και στην προσωπική του ζωή, ωστόσο υπάρχει μια ταινία που μπορεί να τον ανεβάσει αρκετά.
Το Minamata είναι σε σκηνοθεσία και σενάριο του διακεκριμένου Andrew Levitas, θα έχει τον 3 φορές υποψήφιο για Oscar ηθοποιό αρκετά διαφορετικό να υποδύεται τον βραβευμένο φωτογράφο των πολέμων, W. Eugene Smith.
Oι πρώτες κριτικές για την νέα του ταινία δεν την αποθεώνουν ακριβώς, αναφέρουν όμως ότι ο Johnny Depp είναι καταπληκτικός στον ρόλο και ουσιαστικά επανέρχεται για τα καλές στις ερμηνείες που τον έκαναν να ξεχωρίσει. Αναλυτικά παραθέτουμε αυτούσιες τις κριτικές:
Guardian
Minamata is not a masterpiece and there are one or two clichés here about western saviours and boozy, difficult, passionate journalists who occupy the perennial Venn diagram overlap between integrity and alcoholism. This movie’s producer-star Johnny Depp has form on this score, with his starstruck impersonation of Hunter Thompson. And once again, he has chosen a role in which he wears a hat indoors. But Minamata is a forthright, heartfelt movie, an old-fashioned “issue picture” with a worthwhile story to tell about how communities can stand up to overweening corporations and how journalists dedicated to truthful news can help them.
The Hollywood Reporter
Johnny Depp in the role of acclaimed photojournalist W. Eugene Smith is the most fortunate thing about Minamata, the impassioned account of a real-life environmental tragedy in Japan caused by industrial negligence. The battle waged by the residents of a small coastal town, mostly fishermen and their families, to stop a chemical factory from pouring toxic waste into the sea and the fish they eat makes for a chilling tale of greed and horror, with parallels to the Erin Brockovich story. Only here, director Andrew Levitas and his co-screenwriters dramatize a riveting story using a mass of groan-worthy genre clichés that ill-serve the truth they are trying to recreate. The wild card that should anyway draw audiences is Depp, amusingly unrecognizable behind an unkempt gray beard, wire rim glasses and a natty beret. He effortlessly captures the bohemian contrariness of the brilliant war photographer Gene Smith as he approaches the end of his career plagued by debts, alcohol, nightmares and disillusionment.
Variety
The undeniably compelling project (just Levitas’ second as director, after 2014’s low-budget but starry Lullaby) resurrects a downward-sliding Johnny Depp — looking all but unrecognizable behind sun damage, liver spots and a sparse, spackled-on beard — in what feels like an extension of the gonzo Hunter S. Thompson performance he delivered in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
The Independent
Depp’s portrayal of Smith is lively and nuanced. The movie star reminds us that he is a talented character actor with a wide range. His freewheeling performance suggests the photographer saw himself as a jazz musician, with a camera instead of a saxophone. However, writer-director Andrew Levitas indulges his lead actor, sometimes holding scenes for too long as the photographer gets extravagantly drunk or struggles to cope with his near-permanent hangovers. Smith is so eccentric that it wouldn’t take very much to turn him into one of those comic characters from the Paul Whitehouse and Harry Enfield shows that Depp so admires.
Η ταινία εστιάζει στον W. Eugene Smith, ο οποίος κάνει ένα ταξίδι στην Ιαπωνία, έτσι ώστε να μπορέσει να καταγράψει και να αντικρίσει την καταστροφική επίδραση της δηλητηρίασης από υδράργυρο στις παράκτιες κοινότητες.
Μαζί με τον Johnny Depp, παίζουν οι Bill Nighy (The Kindness of Strangers, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest), Hiroyuki Sanada (Avengers: Endgame, Westworld, Mr. Holmes, The Twilight Samurai), Tadanobu Asano (Silence, The Outsider, Thor, Midway), Ryo Kase (Letters from Iwo Jima, Restless, Silence, Like Someone in Love), Jun Kunimura (Kill Bill: Vol 1 and 2, Midway).
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