Paul Thomas Anderson’s return to his native San Fernando Valley with LicoricePizza finds wonderful generation-spanning alchemy in the lead casting of another celebrated child of that urbanized Los Angeles County sprawl, Alana Haim, writes DavidCRooney1
— finds wonderful generation-spanning alchemy in the lead casting of another celebrated child of that urbanized Los Angeles County sprawl, Alana Haim. The youngest of the three sisters who form the pop-rock band Haim, she time-travels back to the Valley in 1973 to play Alana Kane, a too-cool-for-school 25-year-old floating through experiences in romance, retail and politics in
. Creating a character whose warmth and humanity are tempered by hilariously deadpan humor and prickly detachment, Haim makes one of the most exciting screen debuts in recent memory.
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