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Weekly Archive > Weekend Read > 03/23/07
Colour Me Disappointed
By peter clines
Colour Me Kubrick
Anthony Frewin
Colour Me Kubrick wants to be a comedy/biopic/character study of Alan Conway (John Malkovich), but ends up with less substance than this real-life story deserves. A consummate con man, Conway spent several months posing as Stanley Kubrick to get money, favors, and sex from numerous people (most notably young men), despite having no resemblance whatsoever to the legendary director and barely a passing knowledge of his work. Alas, the script by Anthony Frewin (Kubrick’s real-life former assistant) compresses all of these extremely repetitive cons into less than an hour of story before Conway’s charade starts to collapse. With no clear passage of time, this creates the appearance that the events occur over the space of just a few days, and this in turn raises the question of how absolutely no one notices this rash of scams, despite constant police involvement. The already implausible con, alas, becomes simply ridiculous to watch in this light, and the story, despite being true (or true-ish), crumbles less than halfway through.
Colour Me Kubrick
Magnolia Pictures
Not rated; 87 min.
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Peter Clines has had a lifelong love affair with the movies. He grew up in New England, where he studied English literature and education, and now lives and writes somewhere in Southern California. If anyone knows exactly where, he would appreciate a few hints.
Colour Me Kubrick courtesy Magnolia Pictures
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