I did not care for Robin Williams in that particular serious role.
Me neither.
This week (on the couch.)
Into the wild:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/
I wasn't familiar with the story on Chris McCandless and
I must say I'm impressed and still am.
The movie itself? Too much symbolic shit, seemingly film trics,
instead of serving the story in a simple chronological order,
Penn or someone else has chosen for a complicated road
which I find needlessly and unnecessarily.
Hal Holbrook (don't know him) has a small role in the movie, heartbreaking.
Dialogue avec mon jardinier:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825244/
Intimate, light, serious, simple, etc.
x a dozen.
Higly recommended.
Interesting part of a review on imdb:
I
have just come from the FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL in Richmond, VA (2008), where I saw this film. I don't view a lot of American films, so I can't adequately compare, but I do know American film makers don't develop relationships between people the way French film makers do. While American films seem to give little short glimpses into people's lives, French film makers give us long conversations between actors and show us how one person can change the life of another.
and...
When the director answered questions at the end of the screening, it was very interesting to hear the Americans trying to insert and look for symbolism in many of the scenes, but the director's replies indicated that symbolism was not intended, rather bare content.