Walk the Line
Straight country and western biopic just as Ray covered the blues etc last year. No great revealtions in the movie itself but some very solid acting all round especially the excellent Joaquin Phoenix
as Johnny Cash, who might have won the Oscar in another year and Reese Witherspoon who is efficient and shows her acting chops as June Carter. They get extra kudos for singing all the songs but somewhere along this line we walked I think I would have liked to have seen something more innovative and something I cared about more. It’s a careful movie but somehow the grit left when we left the cotton fields.
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