Life (2015)
Directed by Anton Corbijn
In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
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Soon to be seen as Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, followed by James Dean in Anton Corbijn’s Life, DeHaan is a compelling screen presence.
DeHaan, meanwhile, plays Dean as the more openly flirtatious of the two, a flashier generational companion to his louchely inspired Lucien Carr in 2013’s “Kill Your Darlings.”
It got a clobbering from debris in 2014 in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, and it similarly takes a beating in the opening moments of Life.
El cineasta sueco, Daniel Espinosa ( Child 44 , 2015), construye pacientemente una atmósfera de realismo científico en Life: Vida inteligente (Life, 2017).
Ahora, en unos años en los que el subgénero de aventuras espaciales parecía condenado a derivar hacia propuestas más serias y existencialistas –Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013), Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2013), La llegada (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)–, es de aplaudir que una propuesta moderadamente modesta (58 millones de dólares de presupuesto) como Life (2017) se libere de todo tipo de complejos y dobles lecturas para recuperar aquel espíritu de monster movie de toda la vida, aquella que no se andaba con rodeos a la hora de dejarnos claras sus prioridades, que no eran otras que la de hacernos vivir una terrorífica odisea espacial a costa de la criatura voraz que iba menguando la tripulación de la expedición espacial de turno.
Truthfully, Gray’s feature rather terrifically splits the difference between the high-momentum survival thrills of Gravity and Interstellar and artier, more ruminative sci-fi touchstones: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Solaris (1972) The Fountain (2006), Melancholia (2011), Arrival (2016), and Claire Denis’ recent, slippery contribution to that sub-genre, High Life .
Emboldened by a sparkling soundtrack from songwriter-composers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (2016's " La La Land "), a miraculous score from John Debney (2011's " No Strings Attached ") and Joseph Trapanese (2016's " Allegiant "), and lustrous lensing from cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (2017's " Life "), "The Greatest Showman" is glorious cinematic spectacle done exactly right.A quixotic marriage of image and sound, the picture taps, claps, belts and swings its way into a place of unfettered nirvana.