36/31
Recordings in association with Levantine Music
Synopsis
A woman taking a cab ride from JFK engages in a conversation with the taxi driver about the important relationships in their lives.. According to the director, the movie was shot in chronological order.. Clark: I’m not claiming to be some Sherlock or something, just a guy who pays attention.. Referenced in Amanda the Jedi Show: I ALMOST Walked Out | The Best and Worst of TIFF 2023 (2023). My Heart Beats for You / Qalbi Daq ElakWritten and Performed by Ahmad KhalilCourtesy of Forman Bros.
Such a premise defies execution
I was excited to see this after learning that it's just two people taking a cab ride in real time from JFK to a midtown Manhattan block I know like my SSN. Of course they get frozen behind a serious accident, which gives them the necessary time to chew the fat and bump the run time. I saw it in a NYC theater with a comped crowd, with one big mouth lady yelling back to the screen (it's NY). Most of us seemed to love it.As a theater lover in America's theater capital, this would be marginally better suited on stage. But it also works fine on screen.
And she's a producer, with all the power that entails
The poster didn't paint Sean Penn as a typical enraged middle age middle class guy, so I didn't anticipate violence, and there is none. It's just talking, with a massive reveal 90% in that I didn't see coming. Penn was a Broadway actor himself, and he certainly handles everything asked of him and excels. In other words, the usual quality.Johnson is an actress I dismissed as a nepo baby bimbo who looks great in bikinis (TLD) and her birthday suit (FSG). I didn't expect much acting here with just the one guy to act off of and no sets.
That was always distracting
But she does deliver and I found her mostly credible. I didn't understand why a coder would have such flashy nails, especially coming back from two weeks in Oklahoma. Now that I think, it can be a present to herself after her OK travails. They make it all pay off. And she pays her cabbie with an outlandish tip that left us all speechless.
It was free, but I was honest
I had a very good time against all expectations.
