NP: Herzog/Lynch/Shannon

[Ian Livingston]

Loved it. Still laughing over the "eagles in drag." The movie was delicious.

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just watched a movie from 2009 called *My Son My Son What Have Ye Done? *
>
> Co-written and directed by Herzog, produced by Lynch, starring Michael
> Shannon (I'm guessing many of you know him at least as the neighbors'
> mathematician son fresh home from the nuthouse in Mendes's *Revolutionary
> Road *adaptation; he's also fucking incredible in this Jeff Nichols movie
> called *Take Shelter*; he can do dark and disturbed in this compelling
> almost Nicholsonian way).
>
> I really liked *MSMSWHYD? *It's pretty short, something like 85m.
> Shannon's great. Greta Gerwig is very good and subtle and deft. Willem
> Dafoe is almost invisible, and I mean that as a compliment. The movie
> itself is somewhat loose, at least in terms of story and structure and
> scene, but in a way you won't mind if you're inclined to like Herzog.
> There's a scene with eyeglasses and a lightbulb that made me spontaneously
> burst into tears.
>
>
>
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