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Everything will be fine movie review7/25/2023 2012 Revelation Perth International Film Festival: Official Lineup.First Images: Crispin Glover’s New Directorial Film.I also did catch What Is It?, which I’ll be writing up in a separate review, and It Is Fine! is by far the superior movie, solely because of Stewart’s amazing script. I’d think he’d be proud and happy at the final film. Sadly, Stewart passed away just one month after filming ended, so he won’t get to see people’s reactions to his story. Plus, lots of people end up getting killed at Stewart’s hands. I don’t really want to reveal the twist, but lots of good-looking women eventually end up getting completely naked, as does Stewart who beds them all. Things do eventually take a dark turn for Stewart, but not in any kind of expected way. This all seems like a set-up for a showdown between Stewart, Carstensen and Glover. ![]() Carstensen asks Stewart to protect her kids from Glover, which he does and which earns him the admiration of Carstensen’s hot daughter (Carrie Szlasa). She’s separated from a real lout of a husband, played with hilarious gruffness by Bruce Glover, i.e. Stewart is the debonair Romeo who lands the attention of a beautiful, sophisticated older woman, played by Margit Carstensen who, with her German accent, isn’t the easiest to understand all the time either. The film starts out as a typical noir flick. Even without the words and even though Stewart’s face isn’t as expressive as a non-handicapped actor, his emotional state in every scene can be read loud and clear. Also, while It Is Fine! is fairly plot heavy, the movie is more about mood and tone. The script he wrote is so tight that whenever his co-stars respond to him, it’s simple to go back in your mind and infer what it was he said. However, it’s not difficult to understand what Stewart is saying even though the words coming out of his mouth are unintelligible. I kept thinking I’d catch on a little bit better than I actually ended up doing, like the way it takes a few minutes to understand British accents in an English film. About halfway through the flick, I was able to catch a couple of his sentences as long as they were short and to the point. Stewart’s speech is virtually impossible to figure out. ![]() It Is Fine! is a boisterous howl at the world from a man whom most people aren’t going to comprehend - and I mean that literally. This isn’t the typical feel-good portrayal of the handicapped that we’re normally accustomed to by actors looking to land an easy Oscar nomination. But it’s even odder to see him behave like a regular person, full of rage, jealousy, duplicity, sexual desire, etc. It’s already strange enough to see an actual handicapped person play a handicapped role on-screen (and that’s the word Stewart used to describe himself). Born with cerebral palsy, Stewart gives an absolutely fearless and bold performance, not only for the full-frontal nude scenes with his severely contorted body, but for casting of himself as an evil, degenerate villain. Stewart who wrote the screenplay and stars. The real force behind the movie, though, is the late Steven C. ![]() But, for this write-up, I’ll focus just on the film itself, which is co-directed by David Brothers. It’s a total experience, a slippery descent into the mind of a uniquely provocative entertainer. Although I cut out of the Q&A after a few questions - each answer took about 20 minutes - the whole thing adds up to one really wild night. The evening starts out with a live performance of his Big Slideshow, then the movie plays, and finally Glover follows it all up with a Q&A session and book signing. Like the first installment, What Is It?, Glover is self-distributing his sophomore directing effort in the strictest sense: The film only screens with Glover in attendance. ![]() 8 at the American Cinematheque‘s Egyptian theater in Hollywood. I caught the second film in Crispin Glover‘s “taboo” It trilogy on Saturday Dec.
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