Jared Leto in MR. NOBODY Photos

Diane Kruger, Jared Leto in Mr. Nobody (top); Jaco van Dormael directs Thomas Byrne, who plays the 9-year-old Nobody of the title (bottom)

In Jaco van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody, an old (and I mean old) man — who claims he’s actually in his mid-30s — is about to face death in the not-too-distant future. This 21st-century Methuselah also happens to be both the last mortal on Earth and Jared Leto.

"Almost moving in its gonzo self-assuredness and take-no-prisoners narrative scope," writes Michael Koresky in indieWIRE, "—although with the nearly 140-minute running time, that could just be my exhaustion talking—Mr. Nobody is as ambitious as it is incoherent, an obvious labor of love that’s equal parts science-fiction, romance, and [...]

by Andre Soares | September 14, 2009   
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21 GRAMS – Sean Penn, Naomi Watts

21 Grams (2003)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, Eddie Marsan, John Rubinstein
 

 

Shot in documentary-style, 21 Grams is a bleak, convoluted, and surprisingly powerful drama about three individuals linked to both one another and to the immediacy of death: Paul (Sean Penn) is a dying man in dire need of a heart transplant; Jack (Benicio Del Toro) is a born-again ex-con who has run over a father and his two daughters as they were crossing a street; and Cristina (Naomi Watts) is the woman whose family Jack has killed. (By the way, the film’s title refers to the alleged weight of a person’s soul. That figure came [...]

by Andre Soares | October 16, 2004   
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