Starts out as a formidably crafted director's gem, evolves into an excellent lighthearted drama and finally spirals into a fantastically magical experience. Bravo!

Rating: 10/10 (7 January 2019)

Director Inarritu has got an unique talent to play with moving images as if he were a child. His style is so incredibley refreshing and funny, real, magical and just darn mesmirizing. We get to see true to life drama mixed in with short magical dreamlike moments. And all this madness gets interwoven with hilarious tongue in cheek jokes. Sounds crazy and incomprehensible, right? But it is still one heck of basic true to life story about love. And about great fears of not being loved...
What's this miraculous story all about then? In essence the story is quite simple, although in it's display (photography), it looks more like fireworks going off! The basic story though is about Michael Keaton playing a has been Hollywood actor, who desperatedly wants to prove to the critics that he can really act by performing in a prestigeous play on Broadway. Will he succeed and become a critics favorite overnight or will he fail miserably at this new prestigeous theatre role and become the biggest laughingstock on Broadway?
This is firstmost a movie about ACTING. And terrific acting performances is what you will get! Mesmirizing photography and a thumping spectucalur soundtrack is what you wil get as well. Tons of it. I mean it just wont get any better than this, you really gotta see it to believe it HOW director Innaritu has played with camera and sound to create this very playful piece of art.
I just wanna applaud this movie for it's playfulness. I love it's charm, because it's full of lust for life! It's bigger than life itself, yet simultaneously so humbling and human as well. I am just a bit lost for words out of sheer exuberance! I have seen it 5 times already and it still stays as riveting and mesmirizing as the very first time...
Bravo!