Bret Easton Ellis has a habit of taking us on tours of glossy 80s locales, but where his books offer a set of stylish short tales with an engrossing narrative – not to mention the odd vampire – here we get the arse-end of the 80s dream. A bloated, drug-addled corpse of a movie that comes off like Robert Altman directing MTVs The Hills.
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
0 CommentsJuly 3, 2009 – 9:32 am
Adapted from the her own book by director Rebecca Miller, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee has a fine character study at its heart, tracking the eponymous Pippa (a near comatose Robin Wright-Penn) as she moves with older husband Alan Arkin to a retirement village and the seams of her seemingly perfect life split open, revealing the convoluted history which has bought her to this point.
