Philip Seymour Hoffman é... Truman Capote

Depois de ter interpretado marcantes papéis secundários (nomeadamente em "Magnólia", de P.T. Anderson), o actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 38 anos, aceitou protagonizar o "biopic" "Capote", de Bennett Miller. Já se fala na corrida ao "Oscar" de melhor actor...

'Capote' May Be Breakout Role for Hoffman
Thursday September 29 11:34 AM ET

The hesitation Philip Seymour Hoffman felt about playing Truman Capote was not unlike the uncertainty audiences might feel over seeing a movie about the man who wrote the true-crime classic "In Cold Blood."

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CAPOTE

Truman Capote probably wouldn’t have liked "Capote," which chronicles the period in his life when he was researching and writing "In Cold Blood," the book that influenced nonfiction scribes for decades to come. Not that there’s anything wrong with the film. On the contrary - it’s excellent, and surely one of the year’s absolute best, with a performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman that’s so simultaneously rich and subtle, they should just give him the Oscar now and get it over with. Better work this year will be hard to find. But Capote himself probably would have chafed at the insights into the darker parts of his character - his neediness and greed, his selfishness and questionable ethics - that director Bennett Miller and writer Dan Futterman offer in their astonishingly assured feature debut. Catherine Keener also gives the performance of a lifetime as Capote’s friend and research partner, "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee. R for some violent images and brief strong language. 115 min.
Four stars out of four.

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