Il New York Film Festival si è aperto alla grande: film di esordio della kermesse americana è stato l'attesissimo The Irishman, prima collaborazione dietro la macchina da presa del premio Oscar Martin Scorsese con il colosso dello streaming on demand Netflix.
Le prime reazioni della stampa americana lo hanno già elogiato, etichettandolo come il miglior film di Martin Scorsese dai tempi di Quei Bravi Ragazzi. Il gangster movie con protagonisti i premi Oscar Robert De Niro, Al Pacino e Joe Pesci, tra gli altri, si piazza immediatamente tra i contender più agguerriti per la prossima awards season. Sarà seconda statuetta alla regia per il cineasta italo-americano?
Frank Sheeran, veterano della Seconda guerra mondiale e sindacalista con connessioni con la mafia, ricorda il suo possibile coinvolgimento nell'uccisione di Jimmy Hoffa, un leader sindacalista americano.
It’s a masterpiece. Period. #TheIrishman @TheNYFF— Robert Levin (@Rlevin85) September 27, 2019
Oh #TheIrishman is brilliant. It’s a film only Martin Scorsese could make and a film unlike anything Scorsese has made. Yes call it a masterpiece. He is a master.— Sasha Stone (@AwardsDaily) September 27, 2019
THE IRISHMAN is a masterwork. Funny, epic, and most of all, melancholy. It’s Scorsese confronting aging, legacies, and mortality. I may or may not have teared up at the end...— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) September 27, 2019
#TheIrishman was well worth the red eye flight and well worth every single minute of that 3 and a half hour run time. More to come in a review on @ColliderVideo later but that lead trio is just as good as you’d hope & it marks another triumph for Thelma Schoonmaker. #NYFF— Perri Nemiroff (@PNemiroff) September 27, 2019
THE IRISHMAN is good! takes 90 minutes to lock in & clear out the cobwebs / adjust to CGI, but the scope is a virtue, the performances are killer (Joseph! Frank! Pesci!) & it eventually coheres into a heart-stopping meditation on the myopia of time. an old man movie for the ages.— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) September 27, 2019
THE IRISHMAN: An instant Martin Scorsese crime classic that’s everything you want to be, and more.— Brett _________ (@BrettRedacted) September 27, 2019
De Niro’s best work in ages, Pesci lights up the screen, and Al Pacino as Jimmy Hoffa screaming about the Kennedys is the peak of cinema!
THE IRISHMAN: al pacino ... oscar ?????— karen han (@karenyhan) September 27, 2019
THE IRISHMAN: Think GOODFELLAS, but directed by the man who gave us SILENCE. A culmination, meditation and tribute to every Scorsese/De Niro/Pesci collaboration. And yet, Al Pacino towers over all of them with a funny, sad and haunting performance as Jimmy Hoffa.— Jordan Ruimy @ #NYFF (@mrRuimy) September 27, 2019
