The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a masterpiece, a moving treatise on death, loss, loneliness and love.
So says Variety’s Anne Thompson in one of the first reviews of David Fincher’s ambitious movie, which stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
She tips Oscar nominations for both actors and praises the CGI work as a seismic shift in film-making.
Pitt is the title character, who, at birth, resembles a small E.T., with the mind and body of an 80-year-old.
Button ages backwards, and as a handsome young man embarks on passionate affairs with Cate’s Daisy and Tilda Swinton’s sophisticated Elizabeth.
“The movie is sadly beautiful, of a piece, as impeccably wrought as its ornate clock that runs counterclockwise,” says Thompson. “It may pack a more powerful punch the older you are and the more people you have lost.”
Scripted by Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), the movie reportedly cost $150 million. Will it make money?
Pointing to the challenge of marketing a melancholy film about life and death, Thompson concludes, “This movie needs all the help it can get, from anyone who loves movies and wants the studios to take more risky bets like this one.”
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button opens on Boxing Day.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: “sadly beautiful”
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