Licorice Pizza

Érase una vez en... Hollywood sin las estrellas protagonistas. Y sin un gran final. La época de Los Ángeles de los 70 está retratada con tanta bravura como la de Tarantino, utilizando incluso canciones de la radio en la banda sonora, pero el guión es mediocre. Más de dos horas de pasar el rato con una pareja de jóvenes, entre los que hay una chispa pero que no se llegan a juntar, no es lo suficientemente bonito, divertido o románticamente cálido. El papel secundario del egocéntrico Bradley Cooper es el único que destaca y evoca emoción e incluso tensión. Por desgracia, sólo brevemente. (21.04.2022)

Such a nice stylistic exercise, though P.T.A. won't put the script behind a frame. But I had fun and Anderson knows how to work with music as well as Tarantino. And Cooper Hoffman is an acting revelation, man. (19.04.2022)

For some, a happy return to Wes Anderson's roots; unfortunately for me, just a return to Anderson's roots. I would much rather see an ambitious drama that the academy has been serving up in regular doses for the past fifteen years than a hesitant trip to the beloved valley. Just like I was once confused by subjectively unpleasant Punch-Drunk Love, I feel the same here, with a series of episodic stories with a conditional alienation effect that lacks a solid foundation. I don't know why I need a psychopath on a motorcycle or a maniac at a gas station. They throw in an image of the times that does a disservice to the seventies and only increases the frequency with which we circle the main couple, who do not fit together at first or even second glance. There is no comparison with the proven storytellers of wandering youthful tales. (25.03.2022)

Paul Thomas Anderson has a made an inconspicuously brilliant fresco of the fringes of the show-business world of 1970s L.A., where the glow of the really big names is seen only from a distance, but is thus all the more enticing to all possible bizarre characters comprising washed-up stars, dilettantes, grown-up child actors, fallen showmen and over-aged talent scouts. Thanks to the brilliant directing and meticulous casting, every character gives the sense of a full life lived, even if he or she only flashes by in a single scene or shot. Mainly, however, Licorice Pizza is a perfectly observed ode to the ambivalent relationships and promises of young love. (06.01.2023)

Licorice Pizza es a la vez dos horas agradables de nostálgica mirada a los locos años setenta y una historia puramente romántica contada a través de un mosaico de historias. Esto sí me gusta. (18.04.2022)

Paul Thomas Anderson probablemente siempre será un director de tres estrellas para mí. Su estilo no corresponde a mis preferencias y lo que me gusta. Por otro lado, en este caso en particular, además de etiquetar la película como especial, destacaría la representación muy precisa de la atmósfera de la época, aumentada por el aspecto musical, la buena cámara y el humor bizarro. El dúo central no me gustó, aunque entiendo la dirección del autor de no querer lanzar a actores y actrices de cartelera en la película. Así que espero que en algún momento algún trabajo del señor Anderson me sorprenda... (28.03.2022)

Another one of Anderson's films telling the story of complicated characters to whom he adapts his optics of perception. If you’re not already capable of developing the empathy needed for the film (even beyond your sympathies), you will absolutely not understand what he is asking you to do and will probably find the film maddeningly irritating. But fortunately for you, there are those other films. (20.06.2022)