Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

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Blu B @RT43513976 Sep 17 You know I get the character is lost trying to make sense of his mental issues but the plot just feels nonexistant because of it. That's the fatal blow here in a nutshell. And yet somehow it's not a complete trainwreck and maintains your interest despite of that pretty well. That is one heck on an accomplishment that should'nt be overlooked. The acting is solid with Harris & Hoffman and really everyone doing good suprisngly. I thiink it's because is one of the secrets that makes this not collapse is this actually gets a chuckle every now and than consistently with it's dead pan but also bizarre dark humor. The editing isn't good but everything else is above average. I seriously think if this actually had a narrative to it, this would be an absolute favorite of mine. I'd say remake this to fix that but there is no way this coud ever be remade. Only in New Hollywood could something like this have been attempted. The wholle film feels like a opening scene or character establshment and never gets out of that phase. It just jumps around with interesting scenes but just never can link them into anything. We just learn about Harry and it's difficult to tell what is reality or what is in his head. It's creepy, funny, bizarre, and somehow keeps you watching despite no narrative really besides always being focused on Hoffman. That scene with Harris confessing her soul was pretty good nad porbably the best thing despite not being funny. Sometimes I don't understand what it's doing but it just has strange vibes I don't mind like when he's just singing guitar randomly. I really don't know what else to say besides if your a big fan of any actor or the director here maybe check this out. Or a really deep cut hardcore New Hollywood flick fan. On a side note this may take the title for the longest movie title of a film I've ever seen. See more Shioka O @RT54204327 10/14/2022 Kinda surreal. I need more explanation. See more 01/26/2022 I can't let go off the lamp. Absurd, touching, funny, crazy. It's a movie cut in many different sequences, and to my taste, not entirely finished. It bounces forth and back around the life of a character who, between psychoanalysis (very popular in the 70's) and dreams, questions why does he wants to kill himself. An interesting movie about the subject taken with a second degree (maybe the belgian side of the director Ulu ‘Grosbard' ). See more steve d @RT35616104 07/17/2020 About as easy to remember as its title. See more 02/06/2019 Not entirely a success, but underrated. Hoffman plays Georgie Soloway, a Paul-Simonesque-but-more-of-a-hippie songwriter becoming disenchanted with his enormous popularity and wealth, and the film resolves itself into a series of vignettes in which he desperately seeks to break out of his penthouse isolation and find real companionship, only to discover that he has only servants, sycophants, leeches, and fans, no real friends. The film tries for something different in its trip, fragmented character study, and Hoffman is too good not to have some fine moments, but he never seems at him in the character, the dialogue has not aged well (very 1972 'trendy,' now apt to provoke laughs), and the frequent flashes back to his pre-success married days don't work in his character's favor (undermines our sympathy for him). The one truly lasting, noteworthy aspect of the film is the all-too-brief appearance of Barbara Harris as an aspiring singer trying out for a part in a play to be based on Soloway's works, but who knows that she's already aged past these parts and doesn't sing well enough; her dream is not going to come true. Harris is heartbreaking, her tremulous voice conveying the uncertainty of dashed hopes and her eyes a watery ocean of youthful hope obscured by age and crow's feet. She blows Hoffman off the screen, and her appearance is all too short. She was nominated for Oscar for this role, and deservedly so. All in all, a curious early '70's experiment; the experiment doesn't really work, but it leaves behind interesting nuggets and its motivations are to be admired. See more 08/10/2017 My favourite film, despite the poor reviews of just about everyone else who has ever seen it. So many fantastic lines, wonderful, strange, surreal, stream-of-conscience plot line and good performances from just about everyone concerned. Well worth at least one viewing, especially by anyone interested in fringe cinema of the era. See more Read all reviews

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

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