Review of One Night in Miami... (2020) by Mauro_Lanari — 20 Jan 2021

(Mauro Lanari).

In 1990 Gore Vidal, Venice Film Festival jury president, behaved like many today with this work, and caused a scandal with a "very fragile opinion, at the limits of ridicule": "for him the true author of the film is not the director but the writer, the one who drew up the script and screenplay" (Beniamino Placido: https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/09/22/venezia-scatenata-la-vendetta.html). If true, then the debutant Regina King with Kemp Powers and his stage play should be judged for the script published directly as a literary text, if she does not know how to transform it into a different code, the audiovisual one of cinema that demands the "instant cult" of shots and sequences that should scratch the so-called collective imagination, while in this case, seen (heard?) the slew of chatter about chatter, soliloquies, monologues, dialogues, I dozed off. Long live "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" (Stoppard 1990) and the endless reboot of "The Big Sleep" [Hawks 1946].