Foxcatcher (2014)
Directed by Bennett Miller
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
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Wearing prosthetics and makeup so as to look more like the real-life du Pont -- one ugly sonofabitch -- Carrell's face in this film is an ungainly combination of sad eyes, a pointy nose (not unlike the Penguin's in Batman Returns ) and yellow-stained little teeth that will surely frighten children should he offer up even the slightest smile.
Miller could have gambled, say, on a serious comedy, not unlike what Richard Linklater got away with in Bernie, which sprinkled interviews with real people into its ironic mini farce.
In “Capote” and “Moneyball,” Bennett Miller gazed into the souls of real-life American iconoclasts launching bold and unexpectedly costly new enterprises, a theme that the director has now taken to powerfully disturbing extremes in his great, brooding true-crime saga “ Foxcatcher .”
While "Moneyball" brought a lighter touch due to its lively hook, "Foxcatcher" finds Miller reverting to "Capote" territory with an icy narrative largely built around performances riddled with darker themes.
This isnt new ground for Bennett Miller, for his “Moneyball” was also a brilliant film that delved into this theme.
Director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) and his collaborators concoct an ostentatiously somber mood, from the wintry color palette that dominates the visuals to the low, rumbling chords that define the moaning soundtrack.
Directed by Bennett Miller ( Capote , Moneyball ), the film is too subtle—and, frankly, too strange—to explicitly make some simple, overarching, grandiose statement.
Mesmerizing in its incremental layering of a bizarre, tragic and thoroughly warped character study, Foxcatcher sees director Bennett Miller well surpassing even the fine work he did in his previous two films, Capote and Moneyball.