Review of America America (2012) by Jamie T — 29 Mar 2016
Whenever directors have 'personal' projects, that's enough to make me scream for the exits. Take for example, Elia Kazan's 'America, America', a movie that just SCREAMS "Pretentious" because it's so "important", or so it would like it to be.
A young Greek who has big dreams of going to America, hits a few stumbling blocks along the way, namely turncoat friends, lack of money, turncoat hookers, lack of money etc. He then realizes that in order to GET money to get to America, he has to marry into it. But is he comfortable with that decision though? Although the acting is good (the lead, played by Stathis Giallelis, is particularly good), I found some of this either strangely dubbed, or badly written, can't quite place it. The cinematography is great though, as looks as gritty as it seems. Finally, Kazan unfortunately feels this was, again, IMPORTANT, so his little speech at the beginning and his hilarious voice-over over the credits when we could just read it for ourselves just screams pretentious film-making.
So, good in some parts, bad on others, too long, and woefully pretentious in places. There, you're on your own now. :
This review of America America (2012) was written by Jamie T on 29 Mar 2016.
America America has generally received very positive reviews.
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