C’mon C’mon
Writer - director Mike Mills aspire for the heart in the touching , beautifully toldC’mon C’m on . Joaquin Phoenix ’s part is a aristocratic soul , with the moving picture exploring adulthood and the seemingly never - ending difference , confusion , and otherwise deeply - steady down emotion that hail with being an grownup . C’mon C’monconnects adults with children in a attentive , touching , and nonrational screening experience that is sure to leave an impingement on audiences .
Phoenix play Johnny , a documentarian travel the country to interview kids about their thought regarding their personal fright and Hope , what they conceive the time to come will hold and what they require out of it . An former tantrum also discover Johnny lose his female parent the twelvemonth before , and her exit is still raw . After reconnecting with his sister Viv ( Gaby Hoffman ) , he travels from New York to California to take care of his nephew Jesse ( Woody Norman ) , an eccentric Kyd with an incredibly lifelike imagination , while she be given to her bipolar husband Paul ( Scoot McNairy ) . While Johnny acknowledge how to spill the beans to Kid , he finds that he is tested after his tending for Jesse travel on past the weekend .
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WhatC’mon C’mondoes so well is deal kids with the dignity they merit . Johnny listens and learns from them . Their thoughts , worries , and aspiration are n’t at all brush aside or looked down upon . Mills makes sure to put them on equal primer as grownup , often by angle into the notion that they are just as lose and confused by the existence as kids are and might ask some assistance to get through lifetime . The photographic film veers towards the sentimental , but in a agency that is adorable and bona fide to the journeying of its characters . C’mon C’monis endearing and honorable , yet unwilling to take a turn into contrived melodramatic territory where it could have so easily gone .
The human relationship between Jesse and Johnny is earnest and sweet ; their interaction also bring to light some thing Johnny would rather not talk about , but is forced to repugn with and meditate because of his nephew ’s questioning questions . The pair butt direct quite a bit , out of frustration , miscommunication , and Johnny ( like most adult ) merely not having the energy to keep up with Jesse ’s seemingly eternal reserves . The aspect of Johnny interview nestling in various cities are intersperse throughout , offer a grounded sense of comfort that lick at the edges of the narrative like wave .
Through Johnny , C’mon C’monexplores parenthood and the difficulties , pressing , and complicated touch that so often uprise by virtuousness of the responsibilities that add up with it . The film mildly ponders life , love , and pain through communicating , unabashedly using its characters ’ emotional connexion to repel the narrative , bringing it to a moving and effective ending that will deplumate at the heartstrings . The film is lift by the palpable onscreen chemical science between Phoenix and Norman , who is unbelievably good and the pair magnetised to observe together . Phoenix ’s carrying out is layer and evocative , as is Hoffman ’s , who is endearing and aweary as Viv .
C’m on C’mon’sdepth and musing is measured , yet never emotionally manipulative . The multifarious history is underscored by Robbie Ryan ’s beautiful black and white-hot cinematography , while Mills ’ close - ups and lingering aeriform shots of the cities are familiar and at the same time made to make watcher feel small , just mankind passing through this life that is much bigger than anyone could have imagined . manufacturing plant seamlessly develops the characters and story , the tempo never travel rapidly to get to the end before it ’s ready . The film is surprisingly gripping in its analytic thinking of maturity , family relationships , and the ups and pile of raising a child . C’mon C’monsneaks up on audiences , carefully enclose the characters and their dispute without oversharing . There is just enough to read the suffering and enough felicity to balance out what is ultimately a very human and heavy view experience .
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C’m on C’monhad its Middleburg Film Festival premiere on October 16 , 2021 . The film will be released in theatre on November 19 . It ’s 108 minutes long and is rated R for language .
Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman in C’mon C’mon
This review was originally published on October 24 in congruity with the Middleburg Film Festival .
C’m on C’m on is a 2021 Drama asterisk Joaquin Phoenix . Phoenix star as Johnny , a radio diarist who takes his nephew on a road slip across the country to see the Earth outside of Los Angeles . The film co - stars Gaby Hoffmann as Johnny ’s sister Viv , and Woody Norman as his nephew Jesse .
