The Criterion Collection’s July 2017 lineup features some potent and heavy material, among the heftiest offerings in terms of sombre meditations on the bleaker aspects of the human condition. From the raw depiction of postwar trauma in Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy, to the philosophical depth and gravitas of long-coveted titles from Robert Bresson (L’argent) and Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker), nobody can accuse Criterion of serving up lightweight fluff in the middle of summer.
And then there’s Lost in America, a short and breezy topical comedy from the mid-1980s that might come across, at least on the surface, as the class clown of the bunch. Alongside the grim wartime, post-apocalyptic and crime-infested scenarios addressed in the other July releases, Albert Brooks’s brisk social satire of the moral vacuity of the yuppie ethos runs the risk of feeling relatively benign, even inconsequential.
That admittedly superficial take on Lost in America...
And then there’s Lost in America, a short and breezy topical comedy from the mid-1980s that might come across, at least on the surface, as the class clown of the bunch. Alongside the grim wartime, post-apocalyptic and crime-infested scenarios addressed in the other July releases, Albert Brooks’s brisk social satire of the moral vacuity of the yuppie ethos runs the risk of feeling relatively benign, even inconsequential.
That admittedly superficial take on Lost in America...
- 7/25/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
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