Directed by:
Anthony HopkinsScreenplay:
Anthony HopkinsCinematography:
Dante SpinottiComposer:
Anthony HopkinsCast:
Michael Clarke Duncan, Fionnula Flanagan, Gavin Grazer, Anthony Hopkins, Camryn Manheim, Christian Slater, Jeffrey Tambor, John Turturro (more)Plots(1)
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence--the world of reality and the world inside his head. Hired to rewrite a murder mystery set in a desert diner and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is politely baffled when the characters from his movie start showing up in his life and vice versa. Felix tries to maintain his equanimity as reality and fantasy collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream, while his memory banks fire off seemingly random references to songs and sci-fi movies from the Fifties. (official distributor synopsis)
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I have one request, Anthony Hopkins: Sir, please stick to acting, because Slipstream does not show that you could succeed as a screenwriter and director. Slipstream looks more like something made by a young music video creator who has watched several famous Lynch films and thought it was nothing difficult and decided to try it too. Visually and content-wise, it does resemble Lynch's quirks, but the characteristic surrealism and hypnotic atmosphere of Lynch's works are missing. Instead, we get frantic editing and a lot of pointless "gimmicks" with which Lynch skillfully manipulates the viewer, but here they clearly lack any meaning. This is a case of a film that I had had enough of within five minutes, but because I felt foolish being done with it so quickly, I suffered for longer, hoping my opinion would change. Perhaps some of the scenes are unintentionally stupid to the point of being amusing. In all aspects, it is a failed experiment. Overall impression: zero multiplied many times over. However, I can recommend it to intellectually oriented snobs and masochists...
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