Starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette and Rooney Mara, the movie arrives in Ireland this week
And now, he has amassed a shockingly impressive cast - Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Toni Collette, Ron Perlman and David Strathairn - to help him deliver the gorgeous, grown-up psychological thriller,The movie cost $60 million to produce, and after over a month in US cinemas, it has only made - at the time of writing - less than $9 million at the box office.
It is exactly the kind of well-made, adult-aimed project that people complain Hollywood simply doesn't make anymore, yet when one arrives, it gets practically ignored. Initially set within the world of a travelling carnival, new arrival Stan learns the tricks of the trade from a pair of clairvoyants , while also falling in love with one of the carnival's performers, Molly .
Before too long, he is looking to move up in the world, using his new"skills" to trick the richest and most powerful people in the most high-end venues.Here he crosses paths with a psychiatrist , who goes into business with Stan, allowing him access to her personal files on their marks, using this private information to better inform his scams.
It is a dark, emotionally complex and intellectually layered story, set against a magnificently gothic world - imagine Shutter Island if it were directed by Tim Burton - filled with great performances by some of Hollywood's biggest stars.It is prestige filmmaking, which sometimes suffers under the weight of its own sense of self-importance , with a middle section that somewhat sags when it almost feels as if the movie forgets what story it is telling.
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