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Inherent Vice

Paul Thomas Anderson directs the first ever adaptation of a novel by the cult author Thomas Pynchon. INHERENT VICE is cooler than expected, and, in spite of an abundance of jokes and wild allusions, a melancholy elegy to the hippie era.

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Paul Thomas Anderson has made the first ever film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel, albeit one of Pynchon’s most accessible novels with all its innuendos found on the screen. Yet someone who hasn’t ever read Pynchon might be pretty confused watching the film adaptation. Los Angeles circa 1970: The hippie detective Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) is trying to find out what happened to his disappeated ex-girlfriend Shasta Fay (Katherine Waterstone), who is now toegther with a real estate bigwig. Doc soon finds himself next to a dead Nazi biker. It’s all somehow connected to an entity called the Golden Fang, which on the one hand looks like a write-off project for dentists,and on the other a weapons and drug ring. In the end the, case is to some extent solved only the Nazi biker is still dead.
In his novel Pynchon‘s joke is in the details, the ambiguous dialogue, the absurd setting and the ridiculous shifts between Sportello's hipster world and the Flatland world of burgers that depicts the real danger. There is not much of the intoxication left in Anderson’s film that is brought about by Pynchon‘s jokess and overkill innuendos. Anderson is a matter-of-fact kind of director who tends to stage things in an analytical way. Despite the many gags and Pynchon wit, his film is an aloof, melancholic elegy to an idea of a counterculture that didn’t have much of a chance from the outset. Joaquin Phoenix as Doc is 15 years older than his character in the novel and already from the beginning ofthe film it seems as though he saw more than he should have in life. And Katherine Waterstone character is surrounded by a cloud of profound sadness. Anderson‘s film will be marketed as the next stoner film in the tradition of the BIG LEBOWSKI, but the comparison only goes so far. Yet with all the fun and games this is about the end of something.

Tom Dorow (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN)

Translation: Carla MacDougall

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USA 2015, 149 min
Genre: Drama, Crime Drama
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Author: Paul Thomas Anderson
DOP: Robert Elswit
Montage: Leslie Jones
Music: Jonny Greenwood
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Eric Roberts, Josh Brolin, Jena Malone, Michael K. Williams, Sasha Pieterse
FSK: 16
Release: 12.02.2015

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