Guillermo del Toro heeft in een dertiendelige reeks tweets Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman de hemel ingeprezen. Hij vergelijkt de film onder meer met Stanley Kubricks Barry Lyndon en analyseert de centrale thema’s.

“The Irishman draait rond levens die zijn gekomen en gegaan,” schrijft del Toro, “met alle onrust, drama, geweld, lawaai en verlies vandien.”

Verderop beschrijft hij de film als de tegenpool van de Frank Sinatra-klassieker My Way: “De personages hebben wroeging, maar kunnen hun daden niet ongedaan maken en moeten ze onder ogen zien.”

Ook del Toro’s collega Ava DuVernay heeft niks dan lof voor The Irishman. “Het is een film van een filmmaker die zich vrij voelt,” tweet ze, “en niet alleen over alle middelen, tijd en geld beschikt, maar ze ook ten volle benut.”

1/13: 13 Tweets about Scorsese's The Irishman: First- the film connects with the epitaph-like nature of Barry Lyndon. It is about lives that came and went, with all their turmoil, all their drama and violence and noise and loss… and how they invariably fade, like we all do…

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019

3/13 The film is a mausoleum of myths: a Funereal monument that stands to crush the bones beneath it. Granite is meant to last but we still turn to dust inside it.

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019

5/13 I remember, in a documentary about Rick Rubin- he explained how Johnny Cash singing “Hurt” (having lived and lost and gone to hell and back) gave it a dimension it could not have in the voice of a -then- young Trent Reznor (even if he composed it). This film is like that.

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019

7/13 Film has the inexorabie feeling of a crucifixion- from the point of view of Judas. Every Station of the cross permeated by humor and a sense of banality- futility- characters are introduced with their pop-up epitaphs superimposed on screen: “This is how they die”

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019

9/13 Pesci supremely minimalistic. Masterful. He is like a black hole- an attractor of planets- dark matter. DeNiro has always fascinated me when he plays characters that are punching above their true weight – or intelligence- That’s why I love him in so much Jackie Brown-

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019

https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/1178727432423002113?s=20

13/13 See it. In a theatre. This movie languished in development in studio vaults for so long… having it here, now, is a miracle. And, btw- fastest 3 hours in a cinema. Do not miss it.

— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) September 30, 2019

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Bron: EW