![]() ![]() “ If I don’t get it, I’m going to f**king come back and do one again that is so bad on purpose just to make you all pay,” Sandler quipped. In fact, Sandler offered a joking threat to Academy members if they don’t fulfill his expectations and vote for him. Related: Uncut Gems Review: Adam Sandler Chases the Next Big ScoreĪddressing the Oscar buzz about himself on The Howard Stern Show (via ETCanada), Sandler indicated that he fully expects to not only gain his first career nomination for Uncut Gems but to actually win. In 2019, Sandler again finds himself gaining steam as an Oscar contender in the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems, which stars the comedian as a New York jeweler on a high-stakes gambling spree. Diamantes en bruto (título original en ) es una película estadounidense de de 2019, dirigida por Josh y Benny Safdie, con un guion de los hermanos Safdie y Ronald Bronstein. In 2017, Sandler joined Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson in Noah Baumbach’s ensemble comedy-drama The Meyerowitz Stories, and garnered some Oscar buzz (that ultimately did not lead to a nomination). The first legit filmmaker to adopt Sandler as an unconventional leading man was Paul Thomas Anderson, who starred the comedian in his 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love. The propulsive lurches and skittish pacing hammered out in the edit build the kind of tension that can only be relieved when someone dies.Of course, over the years Sandler has had a few occasions to move outside his bro-comedy comfort zone and attempt “real” performances in movies by auteur directors. Just as notable is the editing – it’s worth mentioning that editor Ronald Bronstein also co-wrote the picture with the Safdie brothers. When he makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime, Howard must perform a precarious high. The use of sound is equally confrontational: the dialogue is a sweary, overlapping barrage and the electronic score has an unsettling, twitchy quality. From acclaimed filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie comes an electrifying crime thriller about Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score. But in a way, the stone permeates every frame, informing a saturated colour palette of sea greens and jabs of neon orange, and symbolically representing the big win that is always just around the corner. Juggling debt collectors, crazily complicated sports bets, his mistress (Julia Fox) and his wife (Idina Menzel, oozing disdain), life for Howard is a series of high-stakes gambles, the most crucial of which centres on a rare black opal, obtained, like almost everything in Howard’s life, in a way that is not entirely above board.ĭarius Khondji’s camera dives into the stone and emerges, audaciously, during a routine colonoscopy. As slippery as his satin shirts and as brash as the veneered grin he flashes at prospective buyers of his bling, Howard is the kind of man who views every interaction as a competition to be won. ![]() ![]() Wheeling through the capricious orchestrated chaos is Adam Sandler, delivering an abrasive, career-best performance as New York jeweller and risk addict Howard Ratner. It’s a film that is impossible to sit back and watch passively – a clenched-muscle collision of overstimulation. ![]() That might sound off-putting – certainly, this won’t be a film for everyone – but for me, Uncut Gems is the most exhilarating movie experience of the past year. ![]()
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