The Cadillac Eldorado (film)

The latest cinematic offering from director Rušinović—titled "Cadillac Eldorado"—is actually an adaptation based on a story by Ernest Hemingway.

TRAILER :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41QGI6SRi4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH_HL...eature=related

You really ought to make time to see this one; it's a fantastic piece of filmmaking. It hits theaters this Thursday.

It feels a bit like this to me:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109579/

I attended the premiere on Tuesday; it was a good movie, and Philip Seymour Hoffman was absolutely excellent.

I honestly never would've guessed there was enough meat in that novella to make a full-blown movie. But hey, I suppose they could have streamlined the whole point during the adaptation just enough to make it watchable 🤷
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Mada, if it actually picked up an award at the Sundance Film Festival, I’ve got this nagging bias about what the movie is actually going to be about... basically the same skepticism I had—even if it was a bit fuzzy at the time—when I first read the book.

Just one question though—is there any actual hope that the character of this American Mexican deviates from... well... those predictable, stereotypical tropes?

Anyway, whatever. I guess I should just watch it and see. 😳

Does anyone actually know why the movie is called "Cadillac Eldorado" when it was based on the book "French Riviera"?

The movie is incredible. It’s a must-watch, period.

@Arthur Garcia59/">@@Arthur Garcia59: even Ernest Hemingway says:

Ernest Hemingway said:(Let's clear up the confusion regarding the different titles for the book and the movie. The original car model was actually a Cadillac Eldorado, but since that reminded me of the French Riviera, I decided to tweak the book title. That connection didn't really matter for the film version, though.)

gonna go watch it tonight... 🙂

Seriously, everyone, you need to go see this right now—it is just that incredible! It would be a massive mistake to miss out on it. You can catch it throughout the US and over at AMC Theatres.

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watched it yesterday, and I’ve been trying to figure out what to say about it since then 😬 I haven't quite nailed it down yet, so this post is gonna be oh-so-confusing 😁

The movie's interesting. Complex. It IS a good movie. They absolutely nailed the atmosphere—it just sucks you right into that bleak, freezing misery of rural America, and the landscapes look incredible. Okay, now, I have some gripes: was it really NECESSARY to spend ten minutes of the film just watching one of them smoke? Just staring into space and smoking? Couldn't that time have been used better? And seriously, why such a crazy emphasis on the cigarettes? Like, even the sound of the smoke being inhaled?

But anyway, putting the cigarettes aside (they were annoying, yeah), I feel like they were pretty fair to the book, except for the humor. The book is funny. The movie... well, not really. There are maybe three moments where you might crack a smile, but that's about it 🤷

And god, what the hell was with that ending? SPOILER: he sabotages the car, the guy gets hit by a truck, and then we see Harvey Keitel running? And there's blood streaming down the OUTSIDE of the windshield? Like, come on...

Harvey Keitel and Philip Seymour Hoffman—top-tier acting. Seriously, hats off to both of them. I'm honestly so glad to see how much Hoffman has grown into a serious actor who can carry half a movie like this on his own shoulders—not to mention those beautiful brown eyes 😉

But yeah, it is confusing.

My advice: just take those $8.25, head over to the AMC Theatres (not Downtown) and enjoy an American film with some absolutely catastrophic translations for the English dialogue 😬

"Damn, you're gambling while I'm playing for keeps"—honestly one of the few bright spots in an otherwise tedious and overstretched flick.
The first fifteen minutes are just him fidgeting in his seat, waiting for SOMETHING to actually happen. He’s silent, he’s polishing that Cadillac Eldorado, he’s having these awkward silences with his wife, he’s just cruising around in that car... thank god that Mexican showed up and actually saved the movie😬

Laura Roberts61 said:"Damn, you're gambling, but I'm a pro"—that’s probably one of the few truly bright spots in an otherwise tedious and overly long movie.
The first fifteen minutes are basically just him fidgeting in his seat—waiting for SOMETHING to actually happen. He just sits there, he cleans that car, he stays silent with his wife, he drives around in that car... honestly, it's a miracle a Mexican showed up to save the film from itself.😬

A good movie. Though, if I'm being honest, it felt a bit dragged out in certain sections—especially that opening act. It’s a shame, really, because it makes it hard to stay focused throughout. That said, the direction is very consistent, and both the acting and the cinematography are just superb. It's yet another film that proves just how high the quality of American cinema can be.

It wasn't a good movie for me. Sure, maybe it qualifies as art, but I was honestly dying of boredom. Plus, half the crowd at AMC Theatres was whispering to each other during the screening, looking around like, "Wait, who even is this guy?" especially during those endless shots where they just show him smoking or driving down a road for way too long...

The movie was honestly pretty bad. The cinematography holds up—Philip Seymour Hoffman is great in it, and even that little scene where Vuk, Hasan, and Hasan's girl are talking is actually kind of interesting... but everything else? 👎 It’s just way too dragged out and exhausting. You could almost call it your typical American slog.

The book is way better ☕