The Great Gatsby
"Gorgeous costumes. Gorgeous Redford. Gorgeous boredom."
Robert Redford is almost too beautiful to play Gatsby - a man whose tragedy is that beauty alone can't buy you the past. Francis Ford Coppola's screenplay is faithful to a fault, and the result is a gorgeous, glacial film that looks like a museum exhibit of the 1920s but forgets to have a pulse.
you want to see what happens when you hand a genius screenplay to a director who treats it like a costume catalog. The production design won an Oscar. The audience lost consciousness.
you need your movies to have a heartbeat. Redford is so cool he's refrigerated. Farrow is so wispy she might blow off screen. The whole thing is embalmed in good taste.
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