Richard Brody on three 2024 Best Picture Oscar nominees: Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” and Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things.”
“American Fiction” Near the end of this adaptation of Percival Everett’s dazzlingly polyphonic 2001 novel “Erasure,” the writer and director Cord Jefferson introduces a deft metafictional twist of his own. It wouldn’t be fair to reveal it, except to say that it explicitly emphasizes the difference between a movie and a novel—or, rather, what’s needed to make a filmed adaptation a success.
The question is whether the characters’ love in early life and the one that re-blossomed at a distance in their twenties will become a reality now that they are thirty-six. The movie plays like a screenwriting assignment, its three acts divided with a ruler. The structure of “Past Lives” is mussed just enough, by a few interstitial scenes , to efface any sense of formalism or unnatural rigidity.
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