Williams in fine form in One Hour Photo
One Hour Photo
Director: Mark Romanek
Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith
Cert: 18.
Robin Williams is certainly turning out some highly interesting work these days.
He was excellent playing against type as the villain in Insomnia and here he plays a sad loner whose world involves the printing of other people's photographs as a supermarket lab-technician.
It is a confined world in which he prints up all the photos and keeps them as his own ... until fantasy and reality clash in what is a gripping and complex thriller of vast and heartening originality.
And Williams truly is quite stunningly brilliant as the lonely no-hoper who lives through the photographic memories of others.
Director Romanek has fashioned an outstanding, thoughtful and adult gem.
Star Rating: ****
