Licorice Pizza

[cremetangerine82]

The trailer.

Synopsis:

Alana Kane and Gary Valentine grow up, run around and fall in love in California's San Fernando Valley in the 1970s.

I’ve been hearing a lot of Oscar buzz about this one.

It’s astonishing how much Cooper Hoffman looks like his late father. Bradley Cooper looks exactly like 1970’s crazy-ass hairdresser-turned-movie producer Jon Peters.

Any thoughts?

[ahah]

I saw it last week. I thought it did a great job of capturing the era with the most fun kind of nostalgia. There were a few moments where it started to drag, but all in all, I was very impressed that a movie I'd have a hard time explaining what it was about captured my attention so well!

[scarlet]

Jan 3, 2022 10:13:00 GMT -4 ahah said:

I saw it last week. I thought it did a great job of capturing the era with the most fun kind of nostalgia. There were a few moments where it started to drag, but all in all, I was very impressed that a movie I'd have a hard time explaining what it was about captured my attention so well!

same! And I was really impressed with Alana Haim.

[cremetangerine82]

OK, the million dollar question is: how does the relationship play between the leads?
It does have a potential romance between a 15-year-old high school boy and a 25-year-old woman with a career as a photographer.

[scarlet]

Nov 29, 2021 1:38:37 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

a 25-year-old woman with a career as a photographer.

That's not really accurate--she works as an assistant to a photographer and still lives with her parents and sisters. Definitely not a career, more like a stop-gap job until she figures out her life.

I've read some of the criticisms of the age difference, but without spoiling all I can say is it doesn't come across as a grooming situation at all in the movie.

[magazinewhore]

Isn't it more of a meeting of kindred spirits rather than a romance (a la Lost in Translation)?

[cremetangerine82]

Jan 4, 2022 11:54:14 GMT -4 scarlet said:

Nov 29, 2021 1:38:37 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

a 25-year-old woman with a career as a photographer.

That's not really accurate--she works as an assistant to a photographer and still lives with her parents and sisters. Definitely not a career, more like a stop-gap job until she figures out her life.

I've read some of the criticisms of the age difference, but without spoiling all I can say is it doesn't come across as a grooming situation at all in the movie.

Thanks for the correction. I’m just very aware that had the genders be reversed, would it be considered grooming?

[cremetangerine82]

Jan 4, 2022 13:25:14 GMT -4 magazinewhore said:

Isn't it more of a meeting of kindred spirits rather than a romance (a la Lost in Translation)?

Lost in Translation was different because both of them were adults and the relationship never became romantic.

[scarlet]

Jan 4, 2022 17:33:36 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

Jan 4, 2022 11:54:14 GMT -4 scarlet said:

That's not really accurate--she works as an assistant to a photographer and still lives with her parents and sisters. Definitely not a career, more like a stop-gap job until she figures out her life.

I've read some of the criticisms of the age difference, but without spoiling all I can say is it doesn't come across as a grooming situation at all in the movie.

Thanks for the correction. I’m just very aware that had the genders be reversed, would it be considered grooming?

Sure--but it's not. And it's also not set in 2022, but 40 years earlier. I don't want to say anymore, as to spoil it, but I would say if you're interested, see it and judge for yourself.

[cremetangerine82]

Jan 4, 2022 21:20:06 GMT -4 scarlet said:

Jan 4, 2022 17:33:36 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

Thanks for the correction. I’m just very aware that had the genders be reversed, would it be considered grooming?

Sure--but it's not. And it's also not set in 2022, but 40 years earlier. I don't want to say anymore, as to spoil it, but I would say if you're interested, see it and judge for yourself.

I know it takes place in the 1970s and I just think someone would think it’s weird for an adult to hang out with a teenager. There’s another part of the movie that I worry will be rough to sit through.

Is this streaming anywhere? I want to watch it, but not in a theater.