Goodbye Lover
First screened in April 2020
Director: Roland Joffé. Cast: Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Don Johnson, Ellen DeGeneres, Mary-Louise Parker, Ray McKinnon, Andre Gregory, Alex Rocco, Akane Nelson, John Neville, JoNell Kennedy, David Brisbin, Lisa Eichhorn. Screenplay: Ron Peer and Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow. Twitter Capsule:
Tries to spin hard-boiled script into quasi-comedy—a rare and mostly failed attempt, despite good plotting, lensing.
VOR:②
Takes a certain amount of gumption to swim determinedly against the tonal grain of a script, but these results wind up looking more misjudged than inspired.
