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Dedicated to Tom Murphy R.I.P
Adam & Paul - The Movie
Friends since they were small boys, Adam and
Paul -- and we never learn which is which --
have withered into two hapless, desperate
Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and
necessity. A stylized, downbeat comedy, the
film follows the pair through a single day,
which, like every other, is entirely devoted
to the business of scrounging and robbing
money for drugs.
The difference today is that Adam and Paul --
already near rock bottom -- have finally run
out of luck, credit and friends.
'Laurel and Hardy on smack'
Imagine a typical scene from a Laurel and
Hardy film. Stan and Ollie are lost, hungry
and in some sort of trouble. They stand,
childlike, bemused, out of touch with reality
in the proscenium arch of a simple two-shot.
When they speak, it's with a certain
deliberate, presented quality; the lines are
given space and the meaning of their actions
is always crystal clear. Transpose this to
Dublin in 2003, transform Laurel and Hardy
into two junkies teetering on the brink of
extinction, and you have some sense of the
dark, but comedic style of 'Adam & Paul'. The
two heroes are more than individuals they're
archetypes; the scenes are not slices of real
life but funny, schematic studies. There is a
naive formality and uninflected blockiness in
the drama and something very pure about the
subtly stylized, carefully scored dialogue.
All this, combined with the deliberateness
with which new characters are brought onto
the stage, the ritualized hellos and
good-byes, and so on, give the film its
unique stylistic signature.
Tags : Tom Murphy adam & paul Irish Film Dark comedy Drugs Dublin Lenny Abrahamson |
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Affichage : 10861
Durée : 111 s |
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