Ranco's reinterpretation of Erickson 's 2007 novel, "Zeroville" is good entry for an art-house film festival! It tries to follow the novel's initial story of Vikar, played by Franco as a young architect, turned film editor in the late 1960s. Hollywood turning its head to 1970s movie production, funny performances by Jackie Weaver, Seth Rogan and Will Ferell as its industry community!
Vikar, obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor, afixes his disillusion onto Soledad, a struggling actor/mother, played by Megan Fox. She is Vikar's lookalike to Taylor and the rest of the film tries to reflect late 60s subcultures. Although many scenes feature a catchy techno, somewhat 80s synth-sounding tracks that only break that suspension of belief. But Franco's delivery of Viker's descent into madness is quite fun... his performance almost makes Vikar like an out of time, or even a kind of multidimensional character.
Some of the film's imagery is somewhat surreal using archived footage, split-screen shots, it seemed like an art project. Overall it is not a classic (has several weak spots) but for die-hard fans of Franco's talents as an actor and director should get a kick out of it! Maybe this was a warm up exercise for Franco to start working on the biopic of the cult film, "The Room" since this film 's production was in between 2014-2015.
Vikar, obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor, afixes his disillusion onto Soledad, a struggling actor/mother, played by Megan Fox. She is Vikar's lookalike to Taylor and the rest of the film tries to reflect late 60s subcultures. Although many scenes feature a catchy techno, somewhat 80s synth-sounding tracks that only break that suspension of belief. But Franco's delivery of Viker's descent into madness is quite fun... his performance almost makes Vikar like an out of time, or even a kind of multidimensional character.
Some of the film's imagery is somewhat surreal using archived footage, split-screen shots, it seemed like an art project. Overall it is not a classic (has several weak spots) but for die-hard fans of Franco's talents as an actor and director should get a kick out of it! Maybe this was a warm up exercise for Franco to start working on the biopic of the cult film, "The Room" since this film 's production was in between 2014-2015.