“Ad Astra,” which premieres today at the Venice Film Festival, is a delicate balancing act — a science-fiction action-adventure epic on the one hand, and a quiet, ruminative treatise on masculinity and the necessity of human connection on the other
Brad Pitt addresses the mystery surrounding Cliff Booth and his late wife in Quentin Tarantino’s portrait of late-1960s Hollywood and masculinity.
“I think it’s not a thematic leap,” Gardner said of backing Gray’s vision for the film. “And so to me that’s the thing to protect for above all else. There can be more days or bigger equipment or more money, but if you’re in someone’s emotional slipstream, you feel safe regardless of scale. I think we were always from the beginning interested in the physical stakes matching the emotional stakes.”
I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but Pitt is kind of an underrated actor. On a technical level, underrated. And it’s a pleasure to work with someone like that.Even though Gray and Pitt have known each other for many years, this is the first time they have worked together as director and actor.
“You can’t make an Ingmar Bergman movie. You have to embrace what an audience will need as red meat, as a sugarcoating of the pill,” Gray said. “And so you ask yourself, is it worth it to express yourself on this scale, but include red meat and some sugarcoated pill for the audience, or to say ‘No, no, I have no interest in communicating anything but precisely what it is I’m after,’ in which case, good, you’ve got no movie. And I would rather have a movie.
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