this one not originally on my schedule for nziff this year
but - a slot available - and it's on at saturday night prime-time
julianne moore also awarded best actress at cannes for her role
so maybe i've misread the writeup and there is something on offer
it opens with a girl on an overnight bus rolling into los angeles
has a sloppy joe with 'bad babysitter' emblazoned on it - noted
finds her chauffeur-driven limousine and all aboard to tinseltown
robert pattinson the driver and mia wasikowska playing agatha weiss
a detour to a property with the large hollywood sign not far behind
here she scours the remnants of a house obviously destroyed by fire
the scars on agatha's neck and full arm gloves suggesting there is a link
cut to fading star havana segrand (julianne moore) and a workout session
being administered brutally by self-help guru stafford weiss (john cusack)
then in a hospital and a young female patient is being visited by her idol
benjie weiss (evan bird) clearly channeling justin bieber in his role
he the star of a successful film franchise titled bad babysitter - ah
he incorrectly asks - how long you had aids - oops wrong disease
then in the carpark he admonishes his p.a. with a tirade of racial abuse
so a nasty piece of work - ah i get it - in real life stars are like that?
he is the son of the self-help guru and returned agatha is his sister
mum also then introduced - seems normal but not coping too well
son out of rehab, daughter back from a psychiatric ward - the talk!
in the meantime havana is intent on reprising a film starring her mother
she's into sex also - seen in a threesome with full frontal nudity
a gold statue sitting proudly on display in her ostentatious home
she has driven most of her p.a.s away with her neurotic tendencies
so somehow agatha steps in to assume that role - a job is secured
and then the relationship with the chauffeur driver also develops
at least one person who seems to be leading a normal sort of life
over on the film set benjie has a hallucination in the wash-room
ends up strangling one of the younger boys also on the film
havana seen in a car with the chauffeur and then seduces him
in the driveway at her home - unaware agatha is looking on
havana then beaten to death by agatha with the gold statue
back at the weiss home mother performs self-immolation
final scene agatha and benjie (bro and sis) marry each other
using rings stolen from their parents - and the credits roll
thank god - what a shocker - david cronenberg - director
apparantly hates hollywood and everything false about it
so clearly has decided to make a film satirising the place
with then the perfect response to any bad criticism
'but it's meant to be bad - that's what it's really like'
trash place - trash movie - waste of time for me...
