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Thursday, 23 July 2009

The Wrestler (2008)

Posted on 08:21 by uthpa
Highly Recommended
France/USA
Feature Film
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writer: Robert Siegel
Cinematographer: Maryse Alberti
Composer: Clint Mansell
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Barry, Ernest Miller, Dylan Summers, Tommy Farra

Dripping with blood, sweat, and pathos, Rourke’s turn is an impressively brutal one, playing a physically and emotionally ravaged, ageing wrestler, struggling to face up to life outside of the ring; but there’s much more to Aronofsky’s tremendously moving film than just its terrific central performance, not the least of which being Tomei’s brave turn as a stripper, approaching a similar stage of her own career – devastating. Iain.Stott
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