It becomes the way too
early high point of the film.
Not exact matches
Davis,
of course, has been a familiar on - screen face since her small but memorable
early roles in eventual classics like «Tootsie» and «Fletch,» continuing through star turns in enduring iconic
films including «Beetlejuice,» «The Fly,» «A League
of Their Own,» «The Long Kiss Goodnight,» «Stuart Little» and career
high points like her Oscar - nominated turn in «Thelma & Louise» and her Oscar - winning performance in «The Accidental Tourist.»
Shot in a stark black and white, with the actors repeatedly isolated in their own frames, some really creepy images
of crazy nuns (the long
early sequence wherein the nuns are interrogated and exorcised is a miniature masterpiece) and a series
of subjective tracking shots implicating the audience in the chaos, the
film reaches a
high point when the priest consults the local rabbi (also played by Voit) in a series
of head - on medium shots.
One
of the
higher - profile premieres
of the festival, it's mostly under wraps still at this
point, but we have our fingers crossed that it'll meld the acerbic and sharp humor
of Baumbach's
earlier films, with the loose and warm energy
of «Frances Ha,» but however it turns out, a new Baumbach picture is generally good news.