The film begins with the riveting image of vicious, orange-eyed dogs coursing through the blue-black streets of nighttime Tel Aviv. 'Waltz With Bashir'Īri Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" is an absolute stunner, a feature-length animated documentary, from Israel, in which the force of moving drawings amplifies eerily powerful accounts of war, shaky remembrance and rock-solid repression. "Benjamin Button" is all of a visionary piece, and it's a soul-filling vision. Claudio Miranda's sumptuous cinematography, Donald Graham Burt's art direction and production design, and Jacqueline West's costumes. Alexandre Desplat's score, as exquisite and evocative as the Scott Joplin concert waltz woven through it. A supporting cast that includes Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Blanchett's performance, to be sure she's breathtaking in a long red dress, dancing in a fog-shrouded gazebo otherwise she's simply dazzling, and deeply affecting. It's a great performance by any measure, but let me count some of the other ways that Mr. And what a remarkable presence the actor is, not just during that golden era but before and after, when he has only his voice and eyes with which to fashion Ben's character while the wonders of digital technology and age-confounding makeup provide his body and face. "My God," Daisy says at one point in their mid-40s, "look at you - you're perfect." It's a charming laugh line, since he has finally emerged as a fully recognizable Brad Pitt. Not until he grows 15 years younger and she grows 15 years older, however, are they right for each other physically as well as spiritually. She is Ben's contemporary, a friend from their New Orleans childhood who's become an impossibly ravishing ballet dancer. The production takes its time, and uses it wisely, in tracking Benjamin's development from an ugly incubus through a teenage codger to a middle-aged 26-year-old who's certainly spry but still too old for Ms. Time is of the essence in more ways than one.
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