It’s likely that Paolo Giamatti win the Oscar he deserved Between the glasses (they hadn’t even nominated him) on March 10 for this film. He is a lovable character no matter how you look at him, but also hateful, cynical and a little intolerant.
Giamatti, also seen in Jungle cruise, Rock of the ages AND The lady in the water, he is generally not offered leading roles and has provided the voice for several animated works. The professor who composes, with the squinty eye, is a solitary and methodical boy. He makes people angry and has no friends.
The students hate him.
In 1970, the end of the year holidays are approaching and in the school where Barton works someone has to stay during those days to accompany and take care of the students who cannot visit their parents at their home. Since Paul Hunham has no one, he is the perfect candidate.
Paul Giamatti, great as the lonely professor. Universal photosHence the title Those who remain: a handful of students, Paul and Mary Lamb, responsible for the school kitchen.
It is not Those who remain AS The society of poets of death, the Peter Weir film in which the professor played by Robin Williams was loved by almost everyone. No. Paul is stubborn, he smokes a pipe and wears a hat, and if he can make life miserable for the students, he will. Have you ever had a girlfriend?
So what could go wrong?
Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Paul Giamatti. The latter two are the favorites to win the Oscar.All.
There are three protagonists: Paul, Mary, the cook, and Angus Tally (Dominc Sessa), the student who was kicked out of three schools in a short time. The relationship is between three, but above all that between teacher and student will be central in Alexander Payne’s new great film.
Speaking of relationships
Giamatti, ed Da’Vine Joy Randolph They are nominated for an Oscar (Domenico Sessa should have entered), Giamatti as the protagonist, she as the supporting character. And they are winning.
Forced cohabitation during the end-of-year school holidays will have unexpected consequences. And they are more than well used by Payne, who returns after 6 years of silence, next Little big life, starring Matt Damon. Payne is a director with a particular vision of human relationships (The descendantswith George Clooney; Between the glasseswith Giamatti), which returns to the collegial atmosphere (as in electionwith Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon) to explore how alone it feels when you lose so much.
They are three solitaires, in truth, for different reasons, which the spectator will discover as the screening develops.
Giamatti previously worked with Alexander Payne (“The Descendants”) on “Sideways.” And, as in NebraskaPayne is worried about the father and son relationship that Angus wants, rather than recompose, to understand.
But apart from the accompanying sequence, Paul Giamatti’s character is present on screen almost all the time. Paul can go fuck himself when they ask him to shut up at the movies, you see Little Big Man and be ecstatic. When there is a character like Paul, who we discover scene after scene, who grows, who doesn’t remain at first observation, we find ourselves faced with a great interpreter, a very good director and a film that buys us.
“Those Who Remain”
Dramatic comedy. United States, 2023. Original title: “The residues”. 133′, SAM 13. From: Alexander Payne. With: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Palermo and Avellaneda, Cinépolis Recoleta, Avellaneda and Pilar, Showcase Belgrano, Norcenter and Haedo.
Source: Clarin
