Como de costume, diversos bons filmes ficam pouco tempo, ou nem entram em cartaz no circuito comercial. Colour Me Kubrick é mais um filme que se enquadra nessa situação. Raciocinando da maneira como o circuito comercial o faz, é muito fácil se convencer que eles acertaram na aposta de deixar de fora mais esse filme, já que muitas pessoas nem sequer conhecem o diretor Stanley Kubrick, e portanto jamais iriam ao cinema assistir um filme que gira em torno desse "desconhecido".
O filme, baseado em fatos reais, narra a história de Allan Conway, um agente de viagens que, fazendo uso da característica reclusão social de Kubrick, se faz passar pelo famoso diretor durante a gravação do filme"De olhos bem fechados". Allan Conway começa então a freqüentar a alta sociedade londrina, e com isso obter vantagens de todas as espécies (todas as espécies mesmo!) em troca de papéis em fictícios futuros filmes.
Além da interessante história, a trilha sonora de Colour Me Kubrick é composta por diversas músicas dos filmes dirigidos por Stanley Kubrick! Isso é com certeza um ponto a mais a favor do filme. Outro ponto alto é a interpretação sensacional de John Malkovich, que faz o papel de Allan Conway.
O filme foi dirigido por Brian Cook, que trabalhou com Kubrick em De olhos bem fechados, e foi lançado nos EUA em Março deste ano. No Brasil, o filme foi lançado em DVD com o nome "Totalmente Kubrick".
Se você ainda tem dúvidas de como uma pessoa que em nada se parece com o verdadeiro Stanley Kubrick poderia se passar por ele, aqui vai a notícia publicada pelo jornal The Guardian na época desses acontecimentos:
By Andrew Anthony
Sunday March 14, 1999
"In the early Nineties, a man called Alan Conway went about London telling people he was Stanley Kubrick. Strangely, even though he was English, beardless and had apparently only seen a couple of Kubrick's films, Conway persuaded various influential figures that he was indeed the semi-mythical, hirsute American director who had exiled himself in Hertfordshire.
One evening in Covent Garden, a tableful of showbiz-savvy Americans - including the New York Times's then razor-sharp theatre critic Frank Rich, and a Hollywood producer who had actually met Kubrick - fell for Conway's act. As 'Kubrick', Conway gained entrance to the Groucho Club and other exclusive nightspots, where he was careful never to pay a bill or sign a cheque. He went backstage at the theatre and told Julie Walters and Patricia Hayes he was considering using them in a film. Others who thought they had befriended the world's most reclusive 'auteur' included the former Tory MP Sir Fergus Montgomery and the light-entertainment vocalist Joe Longthorne.
Eventually, Conway, a former travel agent, was unmasked in a Vanity Fair article and went on to admit his deception on TV, in a series called The Lying Game. Far from appearing sad or pathetic, there was something morally satisfying about the story. The director of 2001: A Space Odyssey had long ago left behind the world of fame, but celebrity abhors a vacuum. If Kubrick did not want to exist in public, then somebody had to invent him. The reason Conway's invention proved so successful had little to do with his powers of mimicry but much to do with his victims' weakness of vanity. People believed Conway was Kubrick because they wanted to believe one of the planet's most secretive men had decided to reveal himself to them.
'I really did believe I was Stanley Kubrick,' Conway admitted. 'I could have carried on until the day I died.' Or, he might have added, until Kubrick died.
One evening last week, at the door of a grim little flat in Harrow, north London, I asked to see Alan Conway. 'I'm his son,' answered a young man. 'What's it about?'
'Stanley Kubrick.'
'He's dead,' said the man, who introduced himself as Martin Conway.
'Yes,' I said. 'He died a few days ago.'
'No,' he explained. 'My father, Alan Conway, is dead. But come in, I'll tell you about him. You'll get more truth out of me than you ever would have done from him.'
Conway Snr died at home on 5 December last year, just a few months before the man whose identity he had so profitably adopted expired in his country mansion. His son, a 23-year-old law student, invited me into a cramped living-room and set about telling a tale that, in its own twisted way, rivalled Kubrick's for mystery. By turns comic, tragic and bizarre, it also exposed a humanity more raw and complex than any depicted in the filmmaker's oeuvre."
Site oficial do filme: http://www.colourmekubrick.com/
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