With films like Boogie Nights, Magnolia and There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson became too one of the most celebrated directors of our time. Inherent Vice also joins his brilliant filmography.
The adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel, which is considered unfilmable, will premiere on February 18, nine years (!) after the cinema release, as a German free TV premiere at 10:20 p.m. on Tele 5. Wer wacky, entertaining flicks in the style of The Big Lebowski like, should turn on.
Watch a German trailer for Inherent Vice here:
Inherent Vice – Trailer (German) HD
Inherent Vice mixes drug paranoia with offbeat characters and hilarious confusion
The film takes place in Los Angeles in the 1970s and revolves around private investigator Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix). When his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston) shows up one day and asks him to stop an intrigue, an unfolding opaque web of secrets, corruption, false leads and bizarre characters. It doesn’t take long before you lose the thread together with the permanently stoned protagonist.
But that’s not bad at all, because Inherent Vice is deliberately designed to be so cryptic and confused that what counts above all are the extremely strong atmospheric individual scenes. As absurd maze of marijuana smoke, bizarre situations, hilariously funny interludes and tangled entanglements, you should simply let yourself drift in Anderson’s film.
Thanks to the director’s perfect staging and a star cast Joaquin Phoenix in finest dude mode from The Big Lebowski Inherent Vice becomes an irresistible mix of weird madness and funny moments that invite constant rediscovery.
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