Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Billy Wonka (A) on December 27, 2014 at 23:37:07

to make a chronicle of the almost forgotten art of big eyed waifs that were a rage from the late 50's into the 60's? I guess he found it interesting that a con-man took his wife's art and sold it under his name and that her agonizing over the deception led her to crack after adopting Jehovah Witness theology.

Christophe Waltz played the manipulative husband with no real art experience who constantly pushed his wife to turn out more and more paintings. Waltz, to me, was great only in 'Inglorious Basterds' and has been a forced and artificial performer elsewhere. Such is the case here. Waltz makes a great, clever Nazi but a lousy everyday human being. Amy Adams gains your sympathy as the meek and somewhat submissive wife who feeds her husbands money-making plans.

This is a very brightly colored and well dressed film as one would expect of Burton. The shocker is this is the most "normal" film of all his works. A true story with his special touch.

I wasn't crazy about this one but feel a lot of people will like it. Give it a shot if football burn out sets in.