I want Al Pacino to be in a good movie. He is a great actor and deserves better than material he has been given over the past… who knows how long. From Stand Up Guys to 88 Minutes to Jack and Jill, I just feel so sad when a new Pacino movie comes out. His latest film is The Humbling, directed by Barry Levinson, which just got a new trailer.
The film has played the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals to mixed reviews. Skimming what critics have been saying has me really confused. Some call it drama. Some call it a farce. Some say Pacino is boring. Some say it’s his best performance in over a decade. I do not know what to make of it. The film will open the Austin Film Festival, so I will be seeing it there on October 23rd and will finally be able to judge for myself.
Adapted from the novel by Philip Roth, Pacino plays a legendary stage actor who has an affair with a lesbian woman half his age (the always phenomenal Greta Gerwig) at a secluded country house in Connecticut. It is a tragic comedy about a man who has lived inside his own imagination for too long. The film also features Kyra Sedgwick, Diane Wiest, Charles Grodin, Dan Hedaya, and Nina Arianda (who should be a massive star).
Millennium Entertainment will release The Humbling in theaters and On Demand/iTunes January 23, 2015, you can watch the new trailer below:
