Lindsey Lowson / 02 January 2013 / Categories: Movie and TV Shows, Movie

Capote

AN ALL ROUND EXCEPTIONAL FILM

Regardless of your movie genre preference Capote is a totally compelling watch for anyone who loves a truly great movie.

I may be a little biased as Philip Seymour Hoffman has been a favourite of mine since his early performances in Scent of a Woman, (opposite Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell) and even before that in Nobody's Fool starring Paul Newman, but it is this performance, as Truman Capote, that has quite rightly shone the spotlight on him as an incredible leading man.

For anyone not familiar with the man, Capote is regarded as possibly the greatest American contemporary novelist penning Breakfast at Tiffanys. and then

This film, based on Gerald Clark's biography, is a chilling and not always favourable account of Capote and his research of a real life murder and murderer in Kansas in the 1960s which lead to his critically acclaimed novel In Cold Blood.

Catherine Keener plays a magnificent (Meg) Harper Lee (author of To Kill A Mocking Bird) so for anyone interested in American literature this is also a history lesson of sorts but the main attraction is a brilliant script and acting worthy of the academy award.

I absolutely loved the movie, will definitely watch again even though gruesome films are not really my thing (and it is gruesome and really spine chilling in parts) the most gripping parts are actually the bits that look deeply into the heart and soul of a genius societal outcast, mixing with the New York elite and how that kind of under the belly, cultural rejection manifests in ways that are just not pretty.

Everyone would learn something about themselves from watching this film, a must see.