At the very end, Anton Corbijn shoots in the foot. For 110 minutes, the experiment “Life” is tolerably well risen. It has been very fond of Dane DeHaan watched it, as the young James Dean plays shortly before his breakthrough. With curiosity has also tracked how Robert Pattinson tries than aspiring photographer Dennis Stock, to persuade Dean to a series of photographs for the “Life” magazine.
And then Corbijn shows the original recordings.
James Dean with upturned coat collar on the rainy Times Square, James Dean with flat cap in his rural home Indiana.
irresistible.
In all his previous films, Anton Corbijn iconic male figures has approached and unfortunately inimitable., Be it historical as Joy Division singer Ian Curtis (“Control”) or with charismatic actors like George Clooney (” The American “) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (” A Most Wanted Man “). In “Life” he is now bringing both together – with Dane DeHaan the star performer with Robert Pattinson the actor star. Despite the alleged celebrity factor is “Life” takes but of very personal. As ancestral photographer knows Corbijn how excitingly may be the ratio of portraitists and the portrayed, and this experience makes the premise of “Life” so sexy.
As Stock and Dean 1955 encounter at a film party in Los Angeles, is the latter still not a star. But it will be soon, because he has already shot with Elia Kazan and is the first choice for Nicholas Ray’s new film “Rebel Without A Cause”. Stock on the other hand his breakthrough fever still contrary, he wants to finally make it with a photo shoot in one of the major national magazines. When he sees the party James Dean, it acquired the certainty: this young man who is so lost and confident at the same time, it could succeed. Now he must convince only Dean of the project.But the proves elusive. He suspects that wave of attention will soon collapse on him and rehearsing ever escape: He can not be looking at your own premiere and drink and dance the night away in jazz bars through. The last thing he needs is a photographer who accompanied him in his weeks of free rotation.
It would have been wiped out by Hollywood
A man, who seeks the glory and another, the fame is already certain that it but do not want: The psychodynamics that lies in this constellation, begins “Life” only rudimentary one. In part it’s up to Luke Davies’ screenplay, which ensures no interesting dialogues between floor and Dean; partly it is due to Corbijn, who believes he can fill in the gaps of the script with moving high-gloss images.
Ironically, the performers, the neuralgic point of so many biopics, it is not but. Robert Pattinson is in its still not filed uncertainty Although usual wood. For Dane DeHaan (“The Place Beyond the Pines”) does his job really well. He merges with not Dean, but interprets it as inquisitive hipsters who also enjoys reading and theater workshops attended as he moves with Eartha Kitt around the houses.
In this interpretation is also clear what must have been an anomaly in Hollywood Dean the middle fifties: The studio system with his gag contracts was already collapsed. But agents and producers were still so powerful that they could dictate their film projects, but also their liaisons not only their stars. If he had not come on 30 September 1955 near a car accident, it suggests “Life”, Dean would have been wiped out sooner or later by Hollywood.
It comes pretty close in the course of “Life” a star and his life circumstances. Or does it, at least – to give at the end of the film the original recordings of floor come. Nearly two hours one has previously worked with Dean, and yet one is surprised by these pictures. So charismatic, so enigmatic, so incredibly handsome: Two, three photos wealthy, and James Dean is again the big unattainable star who he was at the beginning of the film.
In Video: The trailer of “Life”
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