JCVD
WHAT
JCVD
WHEN
SPECIAL SCREENING THUR MAR 19, 7PM AS PART OF FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL!
WHERE
PALACE VERONA, 17 OXFORD ST, PADDINGTON
HOW MUCH
$10 HERE
French director Mabrouk El Mechri's action-comedy has been touted as the BEING JOHN MALKOVICH for the Muscles from Brussels. However, JCVD is nowhere near as successful a meta-narrative. Indeed, it's really grim and confused in parts, with flashes of farcical comedy, Tinseltown satire and Scorsese-via-Tarantino crime drama.
After a messy divorce, ageing film star Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean-Claude Van Damme) retreats to Belgium, where he's still a national hero. His young daughter has refused to live with him because her friends laugh when he's on TV, but to contest custody he needs cash, and he keeps losing film roles to Steven Seagal.
Now he's blundered into an armed holdup in a post office. In the ensuing siege, the cops think Van Damme is the robber while the hostages expect him to save them all with a judiciously placed roundhouse kick.
What actually happens is both more depressing and more inspirational, as Van Damme discovers what real heroism means. And dude can really act - he's wry, gloomy and, as he shows in an astonishing direct-to-camera monologue, capable of raw emotion.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Gulp
Keywords: Film, Jean Claude Van Damme
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