Insignificance
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A surreal encounter between Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, infamous anti-communist senator Joseph McCarthy and baseball star Joe DiMaggio, criticizing the pitfalls of celebrity and the bottomless depths of human vanity in 20th Century America. A delightfully ironic allegory!
Four legendary figures of the mass culture set up a meeting in a hotel room in 1953 New York: Albert Einstein, Merilyn Monroe, the baseball player Joe DiMaggio and the senator Joseph McCarthy discover in the course of one night that they have more in common than they thought. Nicholas Roeg weaves around them an intriguing game between appearance and being, the well-conserved myths and the simple, irrefutable reality as well as the roles that people are asked to take up on, and in the end get absorbed by them.
Through enchanting cinematic curiosity, «Insignificance» removes at once its seemingly suffocating theatrical roots. Due to Roeg’s incessant visual resourcefulness, the film explores with wit the notion of human identity and plays with the grand American illusion (and consequently irrationalism) of idols and fame, offering a wide pool of ideas and inspiration from which the viewer can derive plenty of food for thought and discussion. Humoristic and sharp, «Insignificance» might as well be the British director’s most carefree and indulging movie.
Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Nicolas Roeg
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Terry Johnson
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Peter Hannan
Μουσική / Music
Stanley Myers, Hans Zimmer
Μοντάζ / Editor
Tony Lawson
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
Michael Emil, Theresa Russell
Tony Curtis, Gary Busey
Will Sampson Ian O'Connell
ΗΠΑ / USA
1985
Εγχρωμο / Color
Blu-ray
110’
Αγγλικά / English
