A good single location thriller can be the perfect calling-card for a new director. Buried, Pontypool, Locke; with the right slow-burn of a script, a strong lead and a bit of ingenuity behind the camera, a little can go an incredibly long way. So it’s something of a shame that Barbarians – the directorial debut of established producer Charles Dorfman, and starring Game of Thrones’ iconic bastard Iwan Rheon – doesn’t reach anywhere near the same heights, struggling to find a solid identity, or really any sense of tension, amidst its dinner party drama.
Rheon plays harshly against type as a softly-spoken filmmaker, locking horns with his machismo prick of a best friend-stroke-landlord (Tom Cullen) over his own birthday dinner, trading backhanded comments about all sorts of manly things, like money, and meat, and killing animals. Eventually things escalate beyond words, and Dorfman’s plot takes its fair share of unearned turns,...
Rheon plays harshly against type as a softly-spoken filmmaker, locking horns with his machismo prick of a best friend-stroke-landlord (Tom Cullen) over his own birthday dinner, trading backhanded comments about all sorts of manly things, like money, and meat, and killing animals. Eventually things escalate beyond words, and Dorfman’s plot takes its fair share of unearned turns,...
- 11/8/2021
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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