Good Time - review

Release date 13.09.2017
Time 100 minutes
age +16
Country United States (United States)
Distributor Elite Film AG
Genre Drama
Director Benny Safdie Josh Safdie
Actor Barkhad Abdi Jennifer Jason Leigh Robert Pattinson [+]
Screenwriter Benny Safdie Josh Safdie

review

Preceded by a good reputation after his selection in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival, Good Time by the Benny brothers and Josh Safdie is an object that carries the sympathy immediately, thanks to an inextricable situation and characters who have been entitled to a real scenario processing.

The film opens in the office of a psychologist where Nick Nikas (Benny Safdie), a mentally handicapped but physically impressive young man, like Lennie Small in Mice and Men, undergoes a battery of tests. The session is interrupted by the break-up of his brother Connie (Robert Pattinson) who takes Nick with him for a robbery without violence. But the naivete of the two brothers did not foresee that the bag containing the stolen banknotes was trapped by very volatile pink paint. Nick ends up being arrested and, very quickly, gets beaten badly by fellow inmates. Not enough money to pay a deposit, Connie goes to the hospital where Nick is interned and frees him. But the evening is far from over.

The Safdie brothers signed what might be called a black comedy. The situations Connie is going through seem to hammer at him like an incessant downpour. Particularly well-written, Good Time is breathtaking from beginning to end with a mastery of time and space, a remarkably dosed rhythm and a very inspired interpretation of Robert Pattinson. Gone are the days of Twilight, the actor makes judicious, audacious choices allowing him to fine-tune the different facets of his very rich game. In the role of Connie, it becomes an electrical battery that does not have a moment of respite and must think of several things at the same time, which is not in its nature.

Good Time, however, does not forget to remain anchored in a reality in which modest people live, those who often have to resort to plan B or to a loophole. The directors succeed in reviving their film several times without one feels the artifice, thanks to finds interlocking one another in an efficient way, even pleasantly surprising.

Good Time | Official Trailer