It’s a love story set in 1970s California. “Licorice Pizza”, the highly anticipated new film by American director Paul Thomas Anderson, will be released this Wednesday, January 5 in theaters in France.
From the new Paul Thomas Anderson, you could say it’s the story of a boy and a girl who meet, miss, meet and miss again in the America of Nixon and The Doors.
In 1973, in Los Angeles, Gary was still a high school student when he fell in love with Alana, a 25-year-old trainee photographer. She pushes him away, but despite the age difference, a kind of amorous friendship is born between them, which pushes her – she who suffocates in her traditional Jewish family – to follow this supercharged teenager.
Romantic comedy, Licorice Pizza is crossed by multiple adventures, those which constantly happen to its two heroes: stories of water mattresses, pinball machines, trucks rolling down the Hollywood hills in reverse. Gary is Cooper Hoffman and he has the red mane of his father Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opposite him, singer Alana Haim also made her film debut.
Paul Thomas Anderson seems to take great pleasure in filming them, in taking a thousand side roads to tell the birth of their love, to the spectator’s greatest happiness.
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