Film: "The Irishman"
Martin Scorsese’s mob saga is a coldly enthralling triumph, starring Robert De Niro as a veteran hitman and Al Pacino as an ego-drenched Jimmy Hoffa.
In this late-career masterpiece, Scorsese offers “a vision of the criminal underworld that’s rippling with echoes of the director’s previous Mob films, but that also takes us someplace bold and new” (Variety). A dense, complex story told with astonishing fluidity, The Irishman brings together three veteran performers working in perfect concert: Joe Pesci as Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino; Al Pacino as an ego-drenched Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa; and Robert De Niro as their right-hand man, Frank Sheeran.
Based on Charles Brandt’s nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses, this is a film about friendship and loyalty between men who commit unspeakable acts and turn on a dime against each other, and about redemption in a world where that possibility seems as distant as the moon. D: Martin Scorsese, US, 2019, 3h30ms
