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Rating: American Pastoral
Directed and (excellently) interpreted by the Scotsman Ewan McGregor, in his first attempt at directing, he is remembered by most for his acting in the two Trainspotting films than in his numerous other movies (at least fifty).
The information about its content, inevitably sought on Wikipedia (well yes, I admit I am a huge fan of the most famous online encyclopedia), consists of 3 scant lines of plot, besides what I have already mentioned at the beginning, they only add that the film is based on the eponymous book written twenty years earlier by Philip Roth, in 1997.
I haven’t read the book (Pulitzer Prize), although for years I have been trying to read something by this interesting American author, and I have several of his titles on my Kindle, I will certainly get around to it…
The two hours of the film fly by and start from the reunion of old friends and comrades on the occasion of remembering “The Swede” whose funeral will be held the next day, narrating the masochistic-flavored story of a father who refuses to resign himself to losing a daughter who does not want anything to do with her father and especially with her mother, and with everything that bourgeois family represents. The backdrop is the 1960s, with its baggage of protests and oppositions against the system and the civil claims of the black population mistreated by whites. Episodes of a terrorist/revolutionary flavor are not lacking, and the soundtrack includes Woodstock-like pieces such as Buffalo Springfield or Jefferson Airplane… and that’s it, a film chosen at random among those offered today by streaming views and it involved and satisfied me, cinematically speaking.
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