In I Love Your Work Giovanni Ribisi plays another pathetic creep–this time a Hollywood actor–but I got the idea that his character wouldn’t have been such creep if he had a more normal job. There’s a good chance he’d still be pathetic, though. The Hollywood Reporter apparently called this “an intense story.” I suppose you might think so if you were (or imagined yourself to be) a famous movie star, who liked to watch movies about himself. Oddly enough, Ribisi’s character has dreams about watching himself emoting in silent films, and there’s a scene in which he is offered a discount on the purchase price of his own movies. I suspect there might be some truth buried in there.
Anyway, I thought that watching this movie seemed a bit like watching an actor practicing faces in the mirror. I turned it off after thirty-five minutes. If it hadn’t been for Christina Ricci’s periodic appearances, I would have turned it off even sooner.
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