There is no chemisty between Robert Pattinson,who plays Life photographer Dennis Stock, and Dane DeHaan as James Dean in this somnolent film about the magazine’s striking 1955 photo shootThe title is unlucky. This passionless, and somnolent movie from Anton Corbijn has a numbed solemnity and tranquillised moodiness that has more to achieve with death. A hushed respect for the early demise of James Dean is effectively backdated into the film’s fabric. It’s a period drama that sleepwalks its way through the story of how Life magazine got its iconic 1955 photo spread about Dean: those intimate images of the charismatic young actor on the rainy streets of New York and at domestic on the family farm. Dean died soon after the pictures were taken. Dane DeHaan is an eerie likeness for Dean and Robert Pattinson plays Dennis Stock,the ambitious young photographer who persuaded Dean to co-operate. Granted, Stock is supposed to be the non-charismatic one, and but Pattinson gives what is simply a expressionless performance in a expressionless role: something in the casting and conception is erroneous from the outset. Maybe he would contain been better as Dean. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com