Advantages: Brilliantly acted stripping bare of hedonistic Hollywood Disadvantages: Some may find its documentary style not to their taste
When people speak of films being powerful they are speaking of films like IvansXTC. British director Bernard Rose, best known for the lushly effective horror Candyman and Immortal Beloved, moved to Hollywood and clearly did not have a good time. IvansXTC feels like guerrilla filmmaking. Shot on digital video it has a grainy, sometimes shaky feel, like Lar von Trier and co.'s Dogme films.
Based loosely on Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', the ... ...agent Ivan Beckman, and his coming to terms with discovering he has cancer. Surrounding him are those he cannot confide in and ultimately are using him just as much as he is using them, whether Peter Weller's gun totting, right wing, whoring star that he poaches from another agency or his girlfriend, Lisa Enos (who co-wrote the film with Rose). There are no relationships here that function normally - Weller, as star Don West, snorts cocaine from ...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Ivans XTC (DVD)
Outstanding and daring, Bernard Rose's exploration of Hollywood's seamier side tells the ... more
story of a man who has everything yet finds that this can never be enough.Ivan Beckman has the Midas touch. He's secured the deal of his career, and life in Hollyw...
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
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