![]() The introverted, humble Terry has a formidable rival – his polar-opposite friend Phil (Shameik Moore), a womanizing photographer who serves Catherine with some brutal honesty: “He ain’t gonna f**k you like you like to be f****d.” According to Phil, Terry views Catherine as a “cinematic ideal,” while Phil sees her for what she is…“flesh and blood.” As years go by, the two vie for her attention, with Catherine leaning towards Phil’s slickness vs. Pretenders is a movie depicting the struggles of two high school girls trying to live life on their own terms. He pursues the woman of his dreams – the mysterious and elusive Catherine (Jane Levy), whom he met at the movies. Franco’s not quite there yet.īoldly spanning (almost) a decade, the film follows a young film student/aspiring director Terry (Jack Kilmer). Pretenders pretends to be Bertolucci’s The Dreamers in its meshing of a saucy young love triangle with an impassioned ode to cinema of yore. Here, the frequent allusions to the French New Wave movement (Godard and Truffaut get name-dropped, among many other auteurs) become borderline-insufferable. The filmmaker’s evident, earnest desire to live up to his beloved literary inspirations went a long way to dilute the smugness. Its level of pretension, however, may even exceed his past endeavors. Pretenders, Franco’s latest directorial feature, is not based on a Great Novel. “…follows a young film student/aspiring director Terry, as he pursues the woman of his dreams…” Franco seems unfazed by the workload, nor the critical backlash. More experienced directors would balk at the task at adapting those great novels. ![]() ![]() The results were underwhelming… to say the least. Other articles where The Pretenders is discussed: James Franco: Other work: His later directorial efforts included The Pretenders (2018) and Zeroville. What’s more questionable are some (let’s face it, a lot) of the choices that he’s made: audacious attempts, wherein he took stabs at adapting works by Cormac McCarthy ( Child of God), William Faulkner ( As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury), and John Steinbeck ( In Dubious Battle). Following their debut album, Pretenders released two singles in the UK, TalkOfThe Town and Message Of Love before Pretenders II arrived, with the former reaching 8 and the latter 11 in the UK singles charts. One certainly can’t fault the guy for lack of effort. The last album with Pretenders’ original line-up, the band continued the tremendous form of their debut album. That’s an average of nine films per year since circa 2000. James Franco currently has 183 titles listed on his IMDB page.
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