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La doppia vita di Mahowny è un film del 2003 diretto da Richard Kwietniowski e interpretato da Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt e Maury Chaykin.
Tratto dal romanzo Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony di Gary Stephen Ross, basato a sua volta su una colossale frode bancaria avvenuta in Canada negli anni ottanta,[1] è stato proiettato al Sundance Film Festival, al Festival di Berlino nella sezione Panorama, e al Festival di Cannes.[2]
A causa della somiglianza con quello del Primo Ministro canadese al tempo in cui si svolsero i fatti (Brian Mulroney), il nome del personaggio a cui il film si ispira, Brian Molony, è stato cambiato in Dan Mahowny.[3]
Trama
Toronto, 1982. Dan Mahowny è un semplice impiegato di banca che riesce a fare carriera e diventare in breve tempo assistente del direttore. La cosa gli permette di accedere senza problemi alla gestione dei conti della filiale e tutti si fidano di lui. Ma nessuno, compresa la sua fidanzata, sa che Dan è anche un giocatore d'azzardo incallito e ogni settimana si reca in un casinò di Atlantic City dove spende i soldi racimolati dai conti dei clienti. La verità comincia a venire alla luce quando la polizia comincia a indagare sul suo allibratore, Frank Perlin.
Distribuzione
Dopo l'anteprima del 23 gennaio 2013 al Sundance Film Festival e la proiezione al Festival di Berlino nel mese di febbraio, il film è stato distribuito negli Stati Uniti a partire dal 2 maggio in un numero limitato di sale.[2]
In seguito è stato mostrato al Festival di Cannes (15 maggio), al Commonwealth Film Festival (6 giugno), al Festival internazionale del cinema di Karlovy Vary (7 luglio), all'Oslo International Film Festival (24 novembre) e all'International Istanbul Film Festival (9 ottobre 2004).[2]
In alcuni Paesi, tra cui Svezia, Finlandia e Messico, è uscito direttamente in DVD tra il 2004 e il 2005.[2]
Date di uscita
Accoglienza
Incassi
Negli Stati Uniti il film ha incassato complessivamente poco più di 1 milione di dollari, a fronte di un budget di circa 10 milioni.[4]
Critica
Il sito Metacritic assegna al film un punteggio di 70 su 100 basato su 29 recensioni, mentre il sito Rotten Tomatoes riporta il 79% di recensioni professionali con un giudizio positivo, con un voto medio di 7 su 10.[5][6]
- Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert: There have been many good movies about gambling, but never one that so single-mindedly shows the gambler at his task.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman: Hoffman plays Dan Mahowny's addiction to instant money as something dirty and private and, at the same time, soul-quickening.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Washington Post, Michael O'Sullivan: As channeled by the extraordinary Hoffman, Dan Mahowny is less a freak than a nerve-deadened Everyman with the courage to search for something that makes him feel alive.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Washington Post, Ann Hornaday: Kwietniowski has managed to create a surprisingly engrossing and suspenseful narrative without resorting to cosmetics, melodrama or hype.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Chicago Reader, J.R. Jones: Kwietniowski follows up his impressive debut feature, "Love and Death on Long Island," with this equally absorbing study of a compulsive personality.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- L.A. Weekly, John Powers: Atlantic City casino boss played with pointedly corrupt amusement by John Hurt, doesn't merely oversee hell but gets a real kick out of the damned.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Austin Chronicle, Marjorie Baumgarten: The situation is not too far removed from that of Jayson Blair and The New York Times. The corporate oversight in place to catch deceptions is lulled into becoming part of the deception. Mahowny wanders through this film as if waiting to get caught, forced into deeper gambling debt because no one applies any brakes.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Philadelphia Inquirer, Steven Rea: An unflashy but fascinating meditation on addiction and greed. The junkie was clearly Mahowny, but the greed, in a way, was everybody else's: the bankers', their flush clientele's, and the casinos', all busy feeding his habit.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle: A fascinating fact-based portrait of a gambling addict.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Baltimore Sun, Chris Kaltenbach: This may be the quietest addict ever to hit movie screens, as well the most disturbing.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Chicago Tribune, Robert K. Elder: Kwietniowski turns up the tension so incrementally, we don't realize the scope of Mahowny's moral wreck until it is too late.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas: Kwietniowski might have tried for some edginess that would express a measure of the excitement Mahowny is experiencing. Despite the driven intensity of the banker, the film threatens to slip into the lifelessness of the drab world it depicts.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Village Voice, J. Hoberman: Owning Mahowny shares the earlier ("Love and Death on Long Island") film's crisp precision, but it's a far more rigorously sublimated and abstract account of l'amour fou.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- The A.V. Club, Keith Phipps: Another actor might not have been able to carry the film, given such a creepily monomaniacal character, but Hoffman lets the humanity soak through, registering split seconds of panic when he's on the verge of getting caught, then just as quickly creating and working a new plan.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- USA Today, Claudia Puig: There are some effectively suspenseful moments in the movie, particularly during the gambling sequences, but one longs for more context and probing into the psyche of an ordinary man with an extraordinary compulsion.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- New York Daily News, Jack Mathews: Hoffman is a fine actor in a rut, working on a string of socially alienated characters who are variations on the same theme. That's too bad, because the story being told around his static presence is amazing.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- New York Post, Lou Lumenick: Hurt, who starred in Kwietniowski's earlier study in compulsion, "Life and Death on Long Island," is oily perfection as the devious Victor.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- The New York Times, A.O. Scott: Whatever minor entertainment there is to be gleaned from Mahowny - set in the early 1980's, mostly in Toronto - comes in bits and pieces.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- TV Guide Magazine, Maitland McDonagh: Ironically, it's most engaging when the focus shifts to Hurt's matter-of-factly amoral enabler, whose glistening suits and jewel-colored shirt-and-tie combinations suggest a particularly poisonous tropical reptile.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Boston Globe, Ty Burr: Hoffman confessed he was drawn to the role because this was a guy who didn't know how to feel, and I found that fascinating. His challenge is our frustration.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- Variety, David Rooney: Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Hurt give compelling performances... But the coldly unrewarding drama is as distant and joyless as its protagonist, representing a disappointment for director Richard Kwietniowski.(metacritic.com/movie/owning-mahowny/critic-reviews)
- rogerebert.com/reviews/owning-mahowny-2003
- nytimes.com/2003/05/02/movies/film-review-just-an-average-bland-obsessive-embezzling-banker.html
- sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-CLIPS-Also-opening-today-2616622.php
- urbancinefile.com.au/home/view.asp?a=9063&s=Reviews
- Todd Kristel, AllMovie: The good news is that Philip Seymour Hoffman turns in a highly disciplined and unwaveringly honest performance as Dan Mahowny. The bad news, however, is the same as the good news: Hoffman's performance remains doggedly true to a character that isn't particularly appealing or exciting. Also, the filmmakers do a good job of stripping the movie of personal warmth (the use of artificial light) and making things look drab (Mahowny's dowdy attire) or gauche (some of the casino furnishings). Like Hoffman's performance, this is good because it's true to the spirit of the film, but it doesn't necessarily make the movie very exciting. Owning Mahowney is a reasonably interesting story, even though the screenplay doesn't contain a lot of surprising moments. However, the filmmakers don't offer a lot of insight into the characters or enough clever twists to liven up the film.(allmovie.com/movie/owning-mahowny-v278282/review)
Riconoscimenti
- 2003 - Durban International Film Festival
- Miglior attore a Philip Seymour Hoffman
- 2004 - Chlotrudis Awards
- Miglior attore a Philip Seymour Hoffman
- 2004 - Genie Awards
- Nomination Miglior film a Andras Hamori, Alessandro Camon e Seaton McLean
- Miglior attore protagonista a Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Miglior sceneggiatura non originale
- Miglior colonna sonora a Richard Grassby-Lewis e Jon Hassell
- Miglior attore canadese a Philip Seymour Hoffman
- 2º posto come Miglior film canadese
Colonna sonora
La colonna sonora, composta ed eseguita da Richard Grassby-Lewis & The Insects insieme al trombettista e compositore statunitense Jon Hassell, è stata pubblicata nel 2003 dalla 2ndsight Records insieme a quella del corto Flames Of Passion, diretto sempre da Kwietniowski nel 1989.[7]
Note
- ^ La doppia vita di Mahowny (2003), su imdb.com, www.imdb.com. URL consultato il 19 agosto 2017.
- ^ a b c d La doppia vita di Mahowny - Release Info, su imdb.com, www.imdb.com. URL consultato il 19 agosto 2017.
- ^ La doppia vita di Mahowny - Trivia, su imdb.com, www.imdb.com. URL consultato il 19 agosto 2017.
- ^ Box office/Business for La doppia vita di Mahowny, su imdb.com, www.imdb.com. URL consultato il 17 ottobre 2016.
- ^ Owning Mahowny, su metacritic.com, www.metacritic.com. URL consultato il 19 agosto 2017.
- ^ Owning Mahowny, su rottentomatoes.com, www.rottentomatoes.com. URL consultato il 19 agosto 2016.
- ^ Richard Grassby-Lewis & The Insects Featuring Jon Hassell - Owning Mahowny / Flames Of Passion, su discogs.com, www.discogs.com. URL consultato il 19 agosto 2016.
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