Murderer, Lyrical Gangster

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2014)

People believe what they want to believe. Everything else after that is essentially window-dressing. Or so Irving and Edith would have you believe. They make fantasy reality and they grist to survive.
And they do so in a quite thoroughly entertaining manner. Considering it's a complex but simple scam, I found myself often confused but immensely absorbed in what was taking place. You have a beautifully acted menage a trois, bubbling under the Coen-esque complexity of a con artist gwan rogue.
The realisation of Christian Bale was a lovely moment, the skit with the hair sets things up brilliantly, and I was engaged throughout. Lovely score, and feels entirely spot-on in terms of the age it tries to capture. Groovy movie, well worth seeing and check yourself on the way home, cos you might have changed.