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United Kingdom, France · 2005
1h 26m
Director Brian W. Cook
Starring John Malkovich, Sam Redford, Tom Allen, Lynda Baron
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Color Me Kubrick is the story of a conman's efforts to impersonate Stanley Kubrick, despite having little knowledge of his career and bearing no resemblance to him. During the filming of 1999's Eyes Wide Shut, Alan Conway posed as the legendary director to scam dozens of unassuming people out of money, liquor, and sexual favors.
I find it hard to believe that Conway bamboozled half of London simply by announcing his name, and it's regrettable that the filmmakers premise their picture on such improbable gullibility. The real Conway was assuredly slier than his bio-pic incarnation; he ought to have been played by Sacha Baron Cohen.
Director Cook and screenwriter Anthony Frewin were both intimates of the real Kubrick, which I guess counts for something. But for what, exactly? Does it uniquely qualify them to make a mean-spirited, trashy and intermittently funny film about a guy who wasn't Kubrick?
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
The movie is endless even at less than 90 minutes. You could use it, "A Clockwork Orange" style, as aversion therapy for seemingly incorrigible con artists.
A sly, enormously entertaining romp based on the antics of real-life Brit conman Alan Conway who rooked his way around '90s London posing as Stanley Kubrick.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
In Color Me Kubrick, John Malkovich has one of the roles of his life, and he acts it up like a haughty gourmet who's just picked up a succulent treat.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
The film reveals, rather delectably, how potent the power of suggestion can be in a world gone madly groupie.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
If you can't watch John Malkovich being John Malkovich, it's still a kick watching him play Alan Conway, a gay Brit who pretended to be the legendary and reclusive director Stanley Kubrick during the 1990s.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
It's entertaining if not exactly enlightening.
Washington Post by Stephen Hunter
Color Me Kubrick is like a nice, deep, clear cocktail of ammonia on the rocks: bracing, comic, astonishing, all of which hide its poison center.
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