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...shared obsession--and a spare anthology of modern theater. The moral claustrophobia of No Exit, the strange sibling bond of The Glass Menagerie, the guilty sustaining secret of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the menacing silences of Harold Pinter all brooded under the skin of Sam Shepard's naturalism. So the film version, which Shepard wrote and stars in, should be an event and not a puzzlement. In "opening up" the play, Robert Altman has dissipated some of its caged-animal tension and replaced it with torpid mannerisms. Eddie (Shepard) sucks all the existential meaning...
...father tries to connect with the son he abandoned years ago: Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, William Hurt in The King, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking. And Darth Vader in the Star Wars series, whose Sith and final episode opened here...
...their abandoned sons. The need for parental closure drove the characters played by Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (which took the runner-up Grand Prix), Sam Shepard in Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking, and William Hurt in James Marsh's The King. A similar theme, of past sins haunting and tainting the present, was the preoccupation of several other biggies: ancient murders in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, boyhood betrayal in Michael Haneke's Hidden, slavery in the American South in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay. The Grand Palais screen was streaked with guilty...
...Best Actor? Too Many. In most of the competition films, the central figures of agony or ecstasy were men: Daniel Auteuil in Hidden,Viggo Mortensen in Violence, Bill Murray in Broken Flowers, Jeremie Renier in L'Enfant, Nazmi Kirik in Kilometre Zero, Michael Pitt in Last Days, Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking, Mickey Rourke or Bruce Willis in Sin City, Tony Leung Ka-fei or Simon Yam in Election... the list is distinguished, and nearly endless...
...play is a thinly veiled roman à clef of legendary director and “The Aviator” subject Howard Hughes’ final, hermetic years. In the play, Shepard names his version of the legendary recluse Henry Hackamore and provides him a modicum of companionship in the person of his obsequious manservant Raoul...