Give me back the old pig
Not the Barney I know that last night appeared on the screen of the Astra cinema in Trento. His face is too clean, too polite ways and ears too likely to be washed really him. Give me
the dirty old man - while I scroll through the images on the screen - the bastard selfish, quarrelsome, rancorous, vaguely alcoholic, liar and all of us (his supporters) have learned to love reading (and rereading) the big book with red cover that we stressed on the bedside table (or more probably in the bathroom
) first to the question whether.
not just a Montecristo between the teeth and a glass of Macallan in hand to make Paul Giamatti (actor) an authentic Barney Panofsky, that is, the character created by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. That Barney who taught us not to be ashamed (too) that we envy ruin your day when the local newspaper devotes a paragraph benevolent to our worst enemy. Because our lives Barney - incidentally - is always full of enemies. Reading
Barney smile that washes over us when the awkwardness - all committed to finding the phrase of the century to win the beautiful woman of our lives - just go out there with a modest: "I like to live in Toronto?" forgetting in his breast pocket the piece of paper with the topics of conversation that we had noted before the meeting. That Barney
shamelessly that was old and alone, is not ashamed to call into service Miss Ogilvy, the old fantasy of the young teacher of the medium, which still manages to keep him company, infallible, during the lonely nights.
said that we move forward. Giamatti will not be because Barney-Barney Panofsky, as is natural given that the films are not books, but there are so many (good) reason to rush to the cinema to see "The version of Barney." As they did Friday Astra hundred spectators, but just a few that seem to run out of room 1. Successfully repeated yesterday, with an expected stay in the city of at least two or three weeks. First
reason to run to the cinema. Here's the easy way to know the old Barney avoid reading (sublime, but tiring) of 490 pages of which the first 100 are a wall erected by the author to select players admitted to paradise. Comodo. According
reason to rush to the cinema. Anyone who has read the book will finally Miriam (oh, Miriam!) The only true love of the actress Rosamund Pike Barney returns the height of the dreams most demanding. Fascinating.
The third reason is to know to run to the cinema live Izzy Panofsky, because if Barney has managed (intentionally) a little 'watered down, his father, Izzy is really amazing, even worse than the original in seeking the death by heart attack - he , undercover cops retire - giving the last night of pleasure in a brothel. Ladies and Gentlemen, here's to you Dustin Hoffman, that if only I were younger would have been him, yes, a fabulous Barney. Magistral.
fourth. Purified from its yellow color and the pages in excess "Barney's Version" in the cinema becomes a perfect love story in three acts through three marriages Barney Panofsky: first marriage to pregnancy, the second marriage for error, the third marriage for love . Applause.
fifth reason. Find that you can feel compassion for a dirty old man when the play becomes, little by little, a drama. One that - that even in passing - the first opportunity to betray his wife but when she looks at him straight in the eye the empty lot in despair, begging for forgiveness one more time that this will not come (Oh, Miriam!). One that - that's the point - when it loses the memory again becomes officially the child who, deep down, he never ceased to be. Moving.
Sixth ground. Read on the screen the story of a man and his mistakes to find out that after the real enemy is within us some more of ourselves (Barney docet) has the power to ruin our lives, painstakingly built chapter by chapter? Instructional.
Three marriages, suicide, two children, two divorces, a friend died and an investigation for murder that is resolved only at the end of the film. All in a bath of irony of the first class. In "The version of Barney," this film has it all. In short, seven and a half euro well spent.
Do as I do: pay the ticket with winds €, use the coins for the rest includes a glass of Coke at the bar of the cinema (you can always pretend it's a Macallan) and finished the show run library in the last ten to invest € paperback edition of the book published by Red ' Adelphi. After the Oscar Barney know the dirty old man. You will not regret.
