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Adapted from George Plimpton’s 1997 novel “Truman Capote?? by writer/director Douglas McGrath (“Emma”), “Infamous” covers the same ground as “Capote,” but does so at a fanciful, almost comical pace...
...first portion of the movie, which takes place in Manhattan, focuses on Truman and his high-society friends—Hope Davis (“The Matador”), Sigourney Weaver, and even Gwyneth Paltrow as a lounge singer. McGrath takes us deep within Capote??s upper-class social environment through his rendering of at-once exuberant and breathtaking scenery...
What has earned “Infamous” attention, beyond its substantial similarity to “Capote,” is its presumption of a close relationship between Capote and killer Perry Smith—a character played by the newest James Bond, Daniel Craig. Capote??s maddening fascination with Perry even culminates in an on-screen kiss—new territory...
...captures Lee’s own anxiety at being unable to produce a work to rival “To Kill a Mockingbird”—the film is otherwise uneven. Spliced throughout are interviews—conducted by an anonymous questioner—with some of Capote??s closest friends. The interviews, which contain external observations about Capote and his relationship with Smith, seem better suited to the History Channel, and interrupt the narrative flow of the feature film...
...Friends with Money” focuses on four women as they enter, with trepidation, tantrums, and biting wit, into middle-age, but moreover it highlights how four actresses who were conventionally charming and cute in their thirties—Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener (“Capote??), Frances McDormand (“Almost Famous”), and Joan Cusack (“School of Rock”)—have matured into four phenomenal acting forces...