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[Douglas McGrath]'s version plays like the outline instead of the script. It announces what we need to know instead of dramatizing it, with painful show-don't-tell dialogue like, "You don't understand-I want to bring nonfictional techniques to a fictional story," and "If I thought it was hard getting the towns-people to open up, how in heaven's name will I ever get the killers to talk?"
As if the movie's not talky enough, McGrath steals Warren Beatty's Reds device, having historical figures talk about [Capote] to the camera-except here they're played by a collection of familiar faces, smugly mugging through people's real-life memories of Capote. Meanwhile, a makeup-free Sandra Bullock mopes around as [Harper Lee], her affectless monotone no match for Catherine Keener's suppressed radiance as Lee in Capote.See the full content of this document
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InfamousDirected by Douglas McGrathDReviewed by Leo CharneyOpens Fri., Oct. 13The "other Capote movie"-...See the full content of this document
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