A pretty crazy movie is High Rise. but there again it is an adaptation of a J G Ballard novel. Director Ben Wheatley and writer Amy Jump have made something fairly original if you like that kind of thing. It is flavour of the month (or year?) Tom Hiddleston who doesn't know what he has got into when he takes an apartment in Jeremy Iron's cultural experiment that turns nasty. There were some interesting moments but it was all a bit haphazard for my taste.
Now Eye in the Sky is definitely my kind of movie. A taught and morally complex thriller that kept you interested throughout. Helen Mirren's Colonel has too much invested in the capture or killing of one terrorist that she is blinded to any eventuality that may occur in such a mission. But there are many more interested parties that wont see it her way. Director Gavin Hood has made something gripping and intelligent. Alan Rickman, in his last role, has never been better.
Another weird movie is Florence Foster Jenkins if only because of the source material. Florence is the world's worst classical singer, but she doesn't know it because hubby Hugh Grant (looking extraordinarily old) and others encourage her. Meryl Streep is perfect as the deluded but extremely wealthy diva but for me, it was Simon Helperg as the young pianist Cosme McMoon who stole the show. He was terrific It's just a shame that director Stephen Frears couldn't pitch the film as he may have wished. He wanted us to laugh with Florence instead of at her, but however much I wanted to, I just felt as embarrassed as many others. The critic in the Sunday Times was particularly cruel, it wasn't that bad a movie, just that the subject matter would never have a good ending even though much of the story is well told.
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