The Unbelievable Truth
(La Increíble Verdad)
(EEUU, 1989) [Color, 89 min.]
Sinopsis:Dirección: Hal Hartley.
Guión: Hal Hartley.
Fotografía: Michael Spiller .
Música: Jim Coleman.
Producción: Jerome Brownsteinm, Bruce Weiss, Hal Hartley.
Productora: Action Features.
Reparto: Adrienne Shelly, Robert Burke, Christopher Cooke, Julia McNeal, Gary Sauer, Mark Bailey, Katherine Mayfield, David Healy, Matt Malloy, Edie Falco.
Un ex-presidiario sale al mundo con buenas intenciones.
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La financiación de su primera película, "The Unbelievable Truth" (La increible verdad, 1989) provenía en parte de Jerry Brownstein, para quien trabajaba en aquel momento, y de la financiación de un banco que ofrecía prestamos de 10.000 dólares a tipos de interés increíblemente bajos y que aprovecharon para pagar el film. "The Unbelievable Truth", cuyo presupuesto aproximado fue de 75.000 dólares , recaudó más de medio millón en Estados Unidos.
Movie Review
The Unbelievable Truth (1990)
July 20, 1990
Review/Film;
Applying 1950's Cool To the 80's
By CARYN JAMES
Published: July 20, 1990
LEAD: Most high school seniors can't wait to get away to college. Audry sits at the breakfast table and explains why she's not going. ''Dad,'' she says in that parents-never-understand tone, ''history is coming to an end.'' Then she reads aloud from a favorite book about the various ways people might die after a nuclear blast.
Most high school seniors can't wait to get away to college. Audry sits at the breakfast table and explains why she's not going. ''Dad,'' she says in that parents-never-understand tone, ''history is coming to an end.'' Then she reads aloud from a favorite book about the various ways people might die after a nuclear blast.
Most women with her dramatic, pouty beauty would be conventional femmes fatales, but Audry has learned a lesson from a Moliere heroine who ''flirts herself to death.'' So when she falls for Josh, a handsome paroled killer working at her father's garage, she steals his wrench as a romantic ploy.
Two beautiful, somber-faced people dressed entirely in black, Audry and Josh are a perfect match, the weirdest but most sensible characters in Hal Hartley's droll, lucid black comedy, ''The Unbelievable Truth.'' This is the kind of small-scale independent movie with a familiar story behind it. The film was written, directed, edited and co-produced by Mr. Hartley, whose relatives took out bank loans and let him use their suburban houses on Long Island as sets during the 11 1/2 days it took to shoot most of the movie.
But the story on screen is fresher and more accomplished than that predictable behind-the-scenes struggle would suggest. As Audry and Josh, Adrienne Shelly and Robert Burke never push their characters into campy comedy. Instead, they provide the film with an archness and shrewd pessimism that seem to reinvent 1950's cool in the face of contemporary culture.
Josh, with the soft, uninflected voice of a young Clint Eastwood or Christopher Walken, keeps insisting that he's not a priest despite his black suit. He is, however, trying to redeem his hapless life. When the town gossip about him is sorted out, it seems he accidentally killed a young woman in a drunken-driving accident. Years later, he got into a shoving match with the woman's father and unintentionally pushed him down the stairs to his death. This is not treated as melodrama, but as evidence of an unlucky fate. After all, Josh says, he only went to visit the man because ''I wanted to apologize to him for killing his daughter.''
Audry is less trusting than Josh. ''You can't have faith in people, only the deals you make with them,'' she tells him. This is a sentiment worthy of her father, the garage owner named Vic Hugo, who cuts a financial deal with his daughter to get her to go to college.
Set in 1988, the film seems behind the curve in its emphasis on the way Wall Street rules American culture. When Josh returns home from prison, he enters a subway at Wall Street; Audry has a giant poster of a dollar bill over her bed; the boyfriend she rejects at the start of the film wears a yuppie's signature yellow necktie. And she stops reading the newspapers and thinking about the apocalypse when she starts making big bucks as a fashion model. Throughout ''The Unbelievable Truth,'' Mr. Hartley pushes this theme of crass commerce too hard.
The film's other unfortunate excess is Christopher Cooke's overacting as Audry's father. He seems to yell and take a bite out of every line he has. But these flaws stand out because the rest of the film is so deft. Mark Bailey, as another of Vic's mechanics, creates a perfectly affable clod. ''So, why'dja kill Pearl's father?'' he asks Josh one day while sitting around the garage.
Mr. Hartley and his director of photography, Michael Spiller, have made a film that is visually and verbally much richer than its low budget. Though ''The Unbelievable Truth'' ends with some incredible twists and revelations, it has all the offbeat appeal of its strange characters. ''You're in love with that homicidal auto mechanic!'' Audry's old boyfriend yells. She has obviously made the right choice.
Hoy he revisitado esta película despues de muuucho tiempo en un miniciclo que le está dedicando este mes a Hartley la Filmoteca Española, y me he sorprendido disfrutándola de nuevo. Al final resulta que detrás de los aires tan artis del señor Hartley y que algunos califican de afectados, pedantes y hasta del todo inverosímiles se encuentran simpáticas películas que se ríen muy sanamente de todo aquello de lo que se las pueda acusar, y así, entre el cachondeo autoconsciente- y en buena parte gracias a él- nos deja historias sinceras e inspiradoras .
Al menos esto se cumple sin duda en sus primeras películas, y sin duda en esta, su debut. Además cuenta con la presencia de la encantadora y guapísima Adrienne Shelly,muy tristemente malograda. Y por si esto fuera poco es una comedia amable que te deja con la sonrisa puesta.
Así que aprovechando que he encontrado una versión algo mejorada de los subtítulos que dejé ya por aquí le abro un merecido hilo.
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