Licorice Pizza

2021 • 133 minuten

Over deze film

Licorice Pizza' is het verhaal van Alana Kane (Alana Haim) en Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) die opgroeien, rondstruinen en verliefd worden in de San Fernando Valley in 1973. Geschreven en geregisseerd door de gelauwerde filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, volgt dit potente drama de weg naar volwassenheid en de voorzichtige verkenning van de eerste liefde. Met onder andere Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Tom Waits, Benny Safdie, Christine Ebersole en Harriet Sansom Harris.

Beoordelingen en reviews

Thought everyone was clutching their pearls when they said it was a pedophile movie, but had to drop this movie the moment I realized it really was glorifying a pedophilic relationship between a 15 year old teenager & a 25 year old adult. How is it a "coming of age story about a young couple" when one of them is ALREADY OF AGE? This is straight up normalizing pedophilia. There's a scene where she gets mad at him for being immature. I wonder why he's so immature? Maybe it's cause he's 15!!!!!!

This was an entertaining, casual love story set in the early 70's. I liked it. It's also, kind of, like an "inside Hollywood" piece. Though the main characters ages were far apart they were close in maturity and development. I was surprised by this clever balance of personalities. Those desiring to brand this relationship indecent are posing as pretentious dictators of societal and human relationships. Its real life, real love. Watch it for yourself.

Interesting twist on tales as old as time. Let's be honest, this movie got hype because of cover art. Sex sells and people don't know what a quality film is anymore.