6/12/2023 0 Comments Lethem motherless brooklyn![]() ![]() ![]() While visiting a Harlem club one night, Lionel starts to commune with the bebop jazz being played, the random-seeming beats and sudden changes aligning perfectly with the scattershot rhythms of his own brain. If the idea of an Oscar-nominated actor playing someone with a disability sounds offensive, Norton successfully navigates that minefield by way of a performance that’s understated, thoughtful and, in one instance, deeply moving. But it’s Norton himself who delivers the standout performance in “Motherless Brooklyn,” in which he plays the kind of misfit-with-hidden-layers that brought him to fame in 1996’s “Primal Fear.” Lionel lives with Tourette’s syndrome, which means that he’s given to sudden facial tics, verbal stammers and inappropriate outbursts. ![]() Norton's character Lionel Essrog is a detective with Tourette's syndrome, who. Shot by Dick Pope to resemble a dime store detective novel and scored with equal beauty and sensitivity by composer Daniel Pemberton, “Motherless Brooklyn” is a film of handsome surfaces and textures, and Norton has assembled a first-rate cast to populate a story that features a Jane Jacobs-like activist played by Cherry Jones, as well as Lionel’s fellow “Minna Men,” a motley crew - like Lionel, former orphans - played with bantering brio by Bobby Cannavale, Dallas Roberts and Ethan Suplee. Now, he's exploring urban planning in a new way in Motherless Brooklyn, a film he wrote, directed and stars in. ![]()
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