Review of The Goldfinch (2019) by Mauro_Lanari — 16 Dec 2020

(Mauro Lanari).

Already "Brooklyn" (2015) was an elaboration of grief for the passage of the protagonist to a new spacetime reality: transoceanic and adult. With "The Goldfinch" Crowley replicates the story with the same affectation and surrender: "the five stages of grief are shown through the peculiar locations where the film navigates: the impenetrability of New York is the denial, the aridity of the Las Vegas desert the anger, the distant London the bargaining, the criminality of Amsterdam the depression and again New York which, with the antique shop becomes a safe house, for final acceptance"; "narrative discontinuity is the chaos of life." Radiohead contribute to the bleak outcome.