Dir: Arthur Penn | Cast: Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart | Drama 93 1965
Although Arthur Penn and Warren Beaty were soon to bound back with ‘Bonnie and Clyde’, first Penn got out of his system one of those delirious follies in which an up-and-coming young talent wilfully blows all the critical and financial capital he has amassed as the result of earlier successes; later earning the brickbat from James Monaco that ‘Micky One’ “except for Woody Allen’s ‘Interiors’, is the most pretentious film by a major filmmaker in the last thirty years”.
Possibly the inspiration for Stephen Frears ‘Gumshoe’, visibly influenced by the Nouvelle Vague – even down to a French leading lady and Belgian cinematographer – with a moody jazz score by Eddie Sauter – ‘Mickey One’ sets out to do for Chicago what the Nouvelle Vague did for Paris. @RichardChatten
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