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‘Joker: Folie À Deux’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix And Lady Gaga In Todd Phillips’ Brilliant Musical Return To A World Of Madness – Venice Film Festival
A review of 'Joker: Folie à Deux' with Joaquin Phoenix reprising his Oscar role, but musically in an offbeat love story with Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.
The animated Joker struts through a theater lobby past posters of Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon, Frank Sinatra in Pal Joey, Gwen Verdon in Sweet Charity, all figuring in musical choices later in the film, but blood will also splatter the screen. Lee sees someone unique as they sit together, a couple of society’s outcasts, at Arkham’s rec room watching the 1953 MGM musical The Band Wagon, the movie where Fred Astaire sings “That’s Entertainment,” a song reprised by our stars more than once in more dour, dressed down tones. A fine supporting cast includes Brendan Gleeson as the sprightly prison warden, Catherine Keener as Arthur’s empathetic lawyer, Steve Coogan as interviewer Paddy Myers, and return appearances by Zazie Beetz’s Sophie Dumond, and the wonderful Leigh Gill back as Gary, but now known by his last name, Puddles as well.
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