One of the few American auteurs who can do just about anything he chooses and get studios to climb on board, Paul Thomas Anderson again takes us in new directions with Licorice Pizza, perhaps his l…
One of the few American auteurs who can do just about anything he chooses and get studios to climb on board, Paul Thomas Anderson again takes us in new directions withmovie to date.
Make no mistake, this is a film with the unmistakable stamp of Anderson, an eight-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker of such acclaimed movies asand his most recent, 2017’she has served up a slice of his own view of a cockeyed relationship between two young people — one with the boy quite ayounger than the girl — and their series of episodic adventures navigating of the terrain of the San Fernando Valley, a favorite haunt of Anderson who grew up there himself.
Anderson isn’t necessarily interested in building a lot of plot here, just enough fodder for a memorable coming-of-age romp through the San Fernando Valley during a period where we had a whole bunch of singular films and filmmakers who regularly turned out original and unique movies like this one — now belonging to a much rarer breed of writer-directors allowed to march to their own drummer without worrying about how to follow it up with four sequels.
Even though Christine Ebersole’s amusing caricature of Ball is obvious, since the large cast of kids did actually appear onLicorice Pizza lip-synch to the actual tune), Lucy “Dolittle’s” backstage freakout at the show is an invention. And Sean Penn as revered actor Jack Holden clearly is meant to emulate William Holden with the name changed as he tries to pick up Alana during an audition and then outing to Tail O’ the Cock restaurant in the Valley, including an incident involving a wild motorcycle stunt there engineered by the restaurant’s owner Rex Blau that is also likely totally invented .
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