The Inarritu/Giacobone Dynamic Duo

Rating: Null/10 (26 January 2015)

BIRDMAN- or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance At its heart this is the story of a man who strives to be loved by his family and others, goes about achieving love in an extraordinarily wrong and difficult way, and miraculously achieves love at the end in spite of his confused ego driven way. The film is an interpretation of Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Birdman is a 21st century surrealist film, and undoubtedly the most successful film in that genre of all time. Successful in that going into the movie, if you aren't the academic type or even know what surrealism is you will understand and will be supremely entertained by the concept.
"A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing" reads a sign in Rigan's dressing room- so my very review of it, like the play critic's review in the film, becomes yet another layer to the film. Super-realism, hell yehl! Another layer: Michael Keaton, an actor who in real life has not graced the Silver screen for a while, plays Rigan an actor who is past his heyday and trying to make a comeback after being out of work for a while. The casting of the movie becomes yet another layer and what a brilliant layer it is. Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Andrea Riseborough, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Zach Galifianakis work together so seamlessly; there should be an Ensemble Oscar.
The cinematography of Alexander Dinelaris along with the script of Nicolas Gicobone under the direction of Inarritu create a fast paced mental dance that you will not have time to reflect upon until you are outside the theater. It is a film to be experienced, preferably on the big screen.
In the Inarritu/ Giacobone collaboration we have finally found the team capable of making Gabrielle Garcia Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude". I for one will never miss a film from this dynamic duo.
Should win Best Picture, Best Director, Cinematography and at least one Oscar for acting.