Basically, it's about a paranoid comedian (Beatty) on the run from the mob in Detroit who ends up several stops later in the heart of Chi-town. Warren Beatty is an actor I have long lost interest in, but the movie reminds you of just how good he was in his heyday. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. But the confusion -- are we inside or outside of Mickey's head? Like I knew this was gonna be a long night when I heard the west coast jazz opening. Neither of these had the longlasting appeal of his better mainstream films. Coming Soon. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. At its core, this heavily symbolic and somewhat hypothetical drama from Arthur Penn concerns a nightclub entertainer escaping his own existence after its been implied his gambling debts have put him in hot water with crime bosses; believing himself to be "guilty of not being innocent", he changes his identity to Mickey One, finds a different agent, and attempts a new start (of sorts). Warren Beatty takes this new name after his business manager Franchot Tone tells him the mob has a contract on his life. | So it's not surprising that many folks, of perhaps a more imaginative bent, were ready for something different. The puppet actors are forced to give us slabs of bad Brando, letting us know that ultimately the whole film is a waste of time. | Rotten (2). But it gradually dawns on him that he's been living it up high on the hog with the mob's money, $20,000.00 dollars of it. Penn and Beatty obviously formed a love/hate relationship before they made Bonnie and Clyde two years later, and this film is great! This is a movie where the landscape is a major character. Despite attracting attention at the Venice Film Festival, Mickey One bombed hard at the box-office, and has faded into obscurity ever since. The jazzy music score (by Eddie Sauter with an assist by Stan Getz) helps move this along. There's a lot of interesting things going on in this gritty urban psychological misfire, and it's inky black-and-white surreal ambiguity will draw in the viewer who is game for what's often considered the first major Hollywood film to embrace the French New Wave aesthetic. and an offbeat performance by Francot Tone and a creepy one by Hurd Hatfield. But alas, it finally sunk in. User Ratings Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! Warren Beatty stars as a stand-up comic on the run from the mob; years later, when he may once again rise to fame, he must decide if he has been in hiding because of a genuine threat, or his own paranoia. One of the most unique American films ever made, Like seeing Lenny Bruce lost in a house of mirrors, Surrealistic psychedelia before hippiedom, Psycho-Noir suspenser trying to catch the (New) Wave. Some movies you stick with hoping they'll get better --- this one doesn't. Obviously, it's an unconventional Hollywood film that seems to provoke either great praise (perhaps excessive) or intense damnation (unwarranted!). An underground film which deserves its cult status, see it if you get the chance. Wonderful Chicago industrial landscape scenes. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. An "art film" in this country seems simply to be a Hollywood script produced for less money. It can also be deeply enjoyable, from Ghislain Cloquet's lovely black and white cinematography to the Kafkaesque main artery. There's not much more to it than that. Stan Getz silky saxophone on the sound track provides Mickey One's one discernible connective thread. Penn & Co. used a ton of artistic metaphors and graphic symbolism to buttress this supposedly straightforward plot theme. He drifts along keeping an extremely low profile and doing odd jobs, before the lure of the stage proves to be too strong to ignore. Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. The image is an example of a ticket confirmation email that AMC sent you when you purchased your ticket. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2015. All Critics (7) | | Fresh (5) Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2015, Something of a heavy-lift, this crazed spectacle of paranoia and fear does, Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2016, Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2015, Film noir. Like a last visit to the now absent locales featured in Diane Arbus photographs, it repels and attracts almost like a roadside museum of oddities. Forgot your password? Is it Penn's best movie? Some of this can really be heard in the music he made over the next decade, especially his twin Corea-assisted masterpieces Sweet Rain and Captain Marvel. ....made two years before "bonnie and clyde", "mickey one" offers a window into the styles of of Dir. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Visually the film was so modern that audiences took at least 20-years to catch up to it. and the Terms and Policies, I see others who have seen this film have mentioned Kafka, others Fellini, and many have commented on the jazz influence (Sax legend Stan Getz is a featured soloist on the soundtrack). ), who plays a nightclub impressario that wants to try out Beatty's act, and various other interactions on his trip to nowhere. A dazzling mindbender, Refreshing! Although it isn't imperative to the film that Warren Beatty be convincing as a piano-playing singer-comedian (the underbelly of downtown club life being only artistic window-dressing for the filmmakers), Beatty doesn't have the rumpled panache needed to bring out the background of this character. Turkey of a movie. A truly remarkable movie that deserves to be rediscovered. Beatty, ducking the camera and peering out at us over his shoulder, does suggest a complicated young artist whose been flailing away, yet he's been made too shallow here, too much a handsome blank. 'Mickey One' shares a similar stylized surrealism and hip approach to the aforementioned, though they are all quite different films in other ways. Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2013. I must say this was one of the most original and surprising movies I've ever seen. Sadly, audiences were perhaps unprepared for this radical new approach to film-making, at least for an American studio, as the film's free-wheeling, care-free attitude and style, heavily influenced by the burgeoning French New Wave in Europe, was a turn-off for critics. Ostensibly a good-looking picture, with its mazes of entrances and exits, it is one which fails to capture the seedy world of low-life show-biz (imagine this thing ten years later, with Bob Fosse directing). Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Apparently Lenny Bruce and Diane Arbus shared a passion for New York's infamous Hubert's Flea Circus and a Times Square movie theater that ran Todd Browning's "Freaks". Along the way there is much symbolism, events which may or may not be hallucinations, and spoken words with double meanings which may or may not be significant. A half hour would be enough to send the audience screaming into the streets. He meets the gorgeous Alexandra Stewart as well. The B&W cinematography is by Ghislain Cloquet. Coming Soon, Regal But as in Antonioni's "The Passenger" one thing is clear: if someone comes to kill Beatty's character, it won't be an overdetermined killing, but a senseless act that comes of a strange deliberateness intruding on a disordered universe and one man's attempt to escape into a separate chaos. To add contrast Director Arthur Penn also interjects dreamy Playboy magazine moments between Warren Beatty and 1966 Playmate of the Year Donna Loren at a posh hotel. Sign up here. Flawed (it's A bit artsy and pretentious), but full of interesting ideas and characters, this collaboration between star Warren Beatty and director Arthur Penn precedes by two years Bonnie and Clyde, their masterpiece.

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