Written, directed and starring John Turturro, amongst a colorful cast of engaging loonies, this is a self critical, perfectly imperfect parody of the human drama,
It is at once ragged and genius in it's sublime musings and witty study of eccentrics, dramatics, cynics and lovers - peering between the veils of life, love and the stage. In this, it is Birdman light.
Not without its flaws, but playfully symbolic sets and lighting form the back drop to a surreal folly. To take it too seriously like so many critics, is to miss it's beauty and the point entirely.
in its study of the thin veils between life and stage.
It is at once ragged and genius in it's sublime musings and witty study of eccentrics, dramatics, cynics and lovers - peering between the veils of life, love and the stage. In this, it is Birdman light.
Not without its flaws, but playfully symbolic sets and lighting form the back drop to a surreal folly. To take it too seriously like so many critics, is to miss it's beauty and the point entirely.
in its study of the thin veils between life and stage.