US, 2019, 210 minutes, Colour.
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Ray Romano, Jesse Plemons, Anna Paquin, Stephen Graham, Bobby Cannavale, Harvey Keitel, Jack Huston, Paul Ben-Victor, Barry Primus, Gary Basaraba.
Directed by Martin Scorsese.
With Director Martin Scorsese turning 77, it might have been thought that this could be his final film. Not so, not at all. He has several themes in the pipeline.
But, at 210 minutes, with some of his favourite actors over the decades, this is certainly a landmark Scorsese film. It takes him back into American crime and political history. It takes him back to the Kennedy era, the election of John F. Kennedy and conflicting influence of powers from Kennedy’s father to the Mafia, and the hostility, especially to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, of the Teamsters union, led by Jimmy Hoffa. The action continues into the Nixon era, campaign politicking, Watergate… Later sequences occur in the 1990s and into the beginning of the 21st-century. Almost a half-century of American history. Continue reading “THE IRISHMAN”
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