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Frost meets Nixon

Friday, 5th December 2008

As I'm desperate,  absolutely desperate, to find an intelligent film that's worth venturing out to the cinema, I'm tempted by the new Ron Howard. New Yorker critic David Denby was won over, by and large. The trailer certainly looks interesting:

During the preparations and the negotiations, we quickly take the measure of Frost—an affable, chipper, smart, but rather shallow showman with plenty of hustle and daring. But Nixon keeps changing; we never do completely understand him. [Frank] Langella has mastered the rumbling voice with its occasional touch of animal growl. He leans forward as he walks, almost apelike as his arms hang down; he gets Nixon’s heaviness of bearing, the awkwardness, the grotesque sentimentality, and also his power, the dangerousness even in retreat.

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