The movie
Nightmare Alley
‘Spectacular… A perfect match of material to auteur, William Lindsay Gresham’s pulpy 1946 novel and the shockingly dark studio picture, resulting in a gorgeous, fantastically sinister moral fable about the cruel predictability of human nature.
Length: 149 min
Country: United States of America
Language spoken: English
Language subtitles: Dutch
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Toni Collette, Romina Power, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Holt McCallany, Mark Povinelli, Tim Blake Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, David Strathairn, Jim Beaver, Paul Anderson, David Hewlett
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Release date: 2021
Description
What a cast! Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, Toni Collette, Mary Steenburgen, Willem Dafoe, David Strathairn, Richard Jenkins… Set on the verge of WWII, Guillermo del Toro’s (the Oscar-winning ‘The Shape of Water’) latest features Cooper as a man with a dark past who joins a carnival, learns the ropes about how to ‘commune with the dead’ (a con), and ascends to celebrity after crossing paths with a psychiatrist (Blanchett), who may just be his ultimate downfall… Great acting, fantastic set design, and del Toro’s bravado style make this a definite Oscar contender.
‘Spectacular… A perfect match of material to auteur, William Lindsay Gresham’s pulpy 1946 novel and the shockingly dark studio picture it inspired give [del Toro], hot off his Oscar win for “The Shape of Water,” a chance to go full film noir, resulting in a gorgeous, fantastically sinister moral fable about the cruel predictability of human nature and the way entire systems are engineered to exploit it—from carnies and con men to shrinks and Sunday preachers.’—Peter Debruge, Variety
‘Spectacular… A perfect match of material to auteur, William Lindsay Gresham’s pulpy 1946 novel and the shockingly dark studio picture it inspired give [del Toro], hot off his Oscar win for “The Shape of Water,” a chance to go full film noir, resulting in a gorgeous, fantastically sinister moral fable about the cruel predictability of human nature and the way entire systems are engineered to exploit it—from carnies and con men to shrinks and Sunday preachers.’—Peter Debruge, Variety
