Review of Listen Up Philip (2014) by Private U — 16 May 2015
Here's a black comedy ... a dark black comedy. Schwartzman stars as a novellist about to publish his second novel. He's a terrible terrible person ... a perfrect blend of ego and insecurity. Moss is his live-in girlfriend who has already lost all faith in the relationship as the film starts.
It gets worth. Jonathan Pryce plays an older successful novelist who takes Schwartzman under his wing. He's a terrible man who is facing the fact that he has systematically shed all his family and friends.
As a film it may remind you of a more ascerbic Woody Allen piece of a Noah Baumbach film from his "The Squid and the Whale" days, but the fact that Pryce reminds one of Philip Roth more precisely locates where this film is coming from.
It's the most successful Roth adaptation not based on any of Roth's work.
This review of Listen Up Philip (2014) was written by Private U on 16 May 2015.
Listen Up Philip has generally received positive reviews.
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