{"id":5280,"date":"2018-04-13T08:14:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2018-04-13T08:44:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:44:44","slug":"review-final-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=5280","title":{"rendered":"Review: FINAL PORTRAIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Be patient. Sit still. Keep working. Keep your coat on, shirt buttoned to the top, tie in place, even in the sweltering heat.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, if you\u2019re lucky, you\u2019ll make something magical, something artful. Or maybe you won\u2019t. The process is frustrating and often ends badly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5281\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/finalportrait1-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/finalportrait1-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/finalportrait1-400x603.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/finalportrait1.png 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4488\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fixbutton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"112\" \/>\u201cFinal Portrait\u201d is about a young man named James Lord (Armie Hammer), who dutifully sits for a portrait by experienced artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush). What Lord thought might take a day, turns into two weeks or more. It\u2019s an endurance test, as Giacometti just can\u2019t decide when the portrait is finished. The question is: will Lord decide for him?<\/p>\n<p>Directed well by actor and director Stanley Tucci (see his wonderful \u201cBig Night\u201d), \u201cFinal Portrait\u201d can try viewer patience. And that is exactly the point. Rush and Hammer are excellent, and Tucci collaborator, and charmer Tony Shalhoub (\u201cMonk\u201d) appears in a significant role.<\/p>\n<p>What works about Tucci\u2019s film is that it borrows from a tiny actual event that allegedly took place in the 1960s and explores the creative process in a meaningful way. Tucci, who also writes here, makes maximum use of Rush\u2019s crusty persona. He is very credible in the role of the famous artist, who lives life by his own set of rules. And the straight man is Hammer, who as Lord, uses his relative youth to exude transition spurred on by experience. One of those experiences is sitting for Giacometti. Hammer plays Lord calmly not overshadowing Rush, rather complementing him as it may have happened in real life.<\/p>\n<p>A microcosm, encapsulating in miniature the characteristics of the artist process, \u201cFinal Portrait\u201d is as frustrating to watch as it is important to experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Tucci captures the frustrating artistic process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[198,194,199,197,196,193,43,50,110,195],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alberto-giacometti","tag-armie-hammer","tag-art","tag-big-night","tag-final-portrait","tag-geoffrey-rush","tag-movie","tag-movie-review","tag-stanley-tucci","tag-tony-shalhoub","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}