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'The Tender Bar': in Uncle Ben Affleck's bland bar

2022-01-07T03:15:28.790Z


George Clooney's New Right Movie is based on JR Moehringer's celebrated youth memoir JR Moehringer published in 2005 The Bar of Great Expectations, emotional memories of childhood and youth centered on the germ of a literary vocation marked by the absence of his father and the lifeline he found in the Dickens bar, the bar of his maternal uncle Charlie. Directed by George Clooney, the adaptation by William Monahan, author of scripts as solvent as Scorsese's The Departed , stays in


JR Moehringer published in 2005

The Bar of Great Expectations,

emotional memories of childhood and youth centered on the germ of a literary vocation marked by the absence of his father and the lifeline he found in the Dickens bar, the bar of his maternal uncle Charlie. Directed by George Clooney, the adaptation by William Monahan, author of scripts as solvent as Scorsese's The

Departed

, stays in a lukewarm translation of the book that looks good, but no more. Played, in the role of the nephew, by the boy Daniel Ranieri and the young Tye Sheridan (the boy from the magnificent

The Card Counter

),

the weight falls on the idolized uncle who evokes a Ben Affleck better than usual, capable of embodying the tenderness and mystery that surrounds a stranded character in the nostalgic gaze of his nephew.

All in all,

The Tender Bar

is just a kind story about initiation to masculinity and life.

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The stigma attached to the protagonist by his absent father, an announcer and

dj

New York radio station whose caged voice a boy thirsty for male references clings to, finds his balm in that Uncle Charlie who replaces the father figure that never existed. Clooney places much of the weight of his eighth film on the idealized figure of Affleck, but at the same time it is scattered, taking too much for granted in the eyes of the spectator, who does not quite feel either the emotion or the importance of the Dickens bar. in the passage to adulthood of the protagonist and, above all, in his vocation as a writer. The readings provided by his uncle, a guy who loves the classics, are as anecdotal as another important discovery, alcohol. Despite his wise advice, Uncle Charlie always seems to hide something important about himself, but that secrecy is diluted between his car,his literary jokes between drinks and his friends, a sentimental landscape that hardly makes up that oasis of camaraderie that asked to get to the bottom of the emotion and less to that tiresome seventies filter that is valid for any memory and, therefore, for none. The past understood as a hodgepodge of images

vintage

and not like a lost paradise in the memory suburbs.

THE TENDER BAR

Director:

George Clooney.

Cast:

Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, Max Martini, Max Casella, Rhenzy Feliz, Matthew Delamater.

Genre:

drama.

United States, 2021. 

Duration:

104 minutes. 

Platform:

Amazon Prime Video. 

Premiere: January 7.

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