What a show, cinema. And often delirium. Hundreds of individuals, in tail and expectant, to observe for two hours another human being like them. Or almost. More handsome and known, okay. Although he was also any, a Lexington boy, in the middle of Kentucky. The boy grew up and became very famous. Today he is 64 years old, a face and even an unmistakable voice. It would be said, in reality, that it has everything. Love, success, celebrity, money. The world loves him, he is supposed to live the dream. Or not? “I’m just an actor who has become famous,” says George Clooney on the screen. Embodies an interpreter in identity crisis, which gives the title to Jay Kellyby Noah Baumbach, a film that competes in the official section of the Venice Festival. Inevitable asking if, in some way, he represents himself.
Namely how much the real divo looks like that magnetic egotistra, insecure, adorable, desperate, false, victorious failed of the film. Even odiable, if not so fascinating. The truth is that the role has the same as its costumes: like a brush. The whole film revolves around him, Baumbach wrote the paper and it shows: “It seemed important to me that the public had a relationship with the actor who embodies the character. We all have a story with George.” And for those reasons the absence of the interpreter at the press conference of the Mostra this Thursday unleashed alarms, rumors and disappointments. The moderator reported that she suffered a “serious sinusitis.” Clooney recovered in time to reach the red carpet of the night, but the presentation of the movie in the morning was weakened. And his problems left more in sight: he aspires to an analysis of fame, identity, magic, emptiness and everything he earns and loses for being a myth of Hollywood. It remains, however, on the surface, pleasant but harmless. He lacks – Voya paradox – right.
Jay Kelly Start with the end of the nth filming of the star. His agent proposes to travel to Tuscany, to collect the tribute of a local festival. Not to mention, answer the actor: too much young And even on the crest of the wave for that. Kelly has already signed for his next length, just around the corner. Everything is smiles: his, his surroundings, of the world. It is, however, that it is only another fiction. After its beautiful facade, the monument is collapsing. He feels alone, although he is always surrounded by people. He is much better to act as a father in his films than in reality. And, at the expense of following him, his team has also renounced his own life. For something as important as exciting the public, they used to be said. But they begin to believe that they only followed the whims of a passionate man to a single argument: himself.
“If you make a movie about an actor, you talk about identity, to look for. We all try to understand what person we are. And our performance Change, as a friend, father, husband. This is how we are, and how we managed to make peace with it, ”Baumbach added. Hence at the beginning of the film he would place an appoint Jay Kelly He embarks on a trip full of ups and downs, like those experienced by the actor in the plot. It offers moments of great emotional force, but other goodists, naifs, almost imposed. Surprising for a director capable of entering the roots of emotions in Stories of a marriage, released in Venice in 2019. His next film also went through the festival: he inaugurated it with Background noise In 2022. He left, however, another bittersweet taste.
Clooney was in the show even less: last year. Although Lobos, From Jon Watts, he was conformed to the commercial claim of his interpreters (the other was Brad Pitt). Nor was it the first time that happened to him. The filmography of Clooney in the last five years, compiled by the IMDB website, includes almost so many short films for the Nespresso brand as films. His last Oscar nomination must be sought in 2011, with The descendantsby Alexander Payne, one of his most relevant roles. And his career as director could never return to the level of Good night, good lucklaunched 20 years ago. George Clooney is always: he produces, films, interprets, beera just causes – what would he have said about the massacre in Gaza if he had been in the press conference today? -, never renounces kindness. Reasons to admire him. Artistic results, however, have not always been up to their fame. The point is that Jay Kellyat last, It is your welcome back to the summit. “I asked George to reveal himself more and more. I did not usually move me with a performance In filming, but this time it happened to me, ”Baumbach said. A penalty that Clooney could not comment in Venice. At least, he was on the red carpet, for everyone’s joy. Without him, cinema is not the same show.