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BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
1999
Director
Spike Jonze
Starring
John Cusack
Cameron Diaz
Catherine Keener
John Malkovich
Runtime
113 minutes
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Squatting bodies! Squatting genders!
The auspicious feature film debut of both visionary music-video director Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is a frazzled fantasy gut-buster, set into motion when puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) lands a corporate job at the mysterious “LesterCorp” and stumbles across a portal that leads to the mind of John Malkovich (John Malkovich, naturally), allowing him - and wife Cameron Diaz, and co-worker crush Catherine Keener - to hijack the increasingly disconcerted actor for 15 minutes at a time. Never has Kaufman’s writing been more overtly queer than in BEING JOHN MALKOVICH as Diaz’s character, inhabiting Malkovich’s body, quickly moves from egg to gender euphoria! Surely this whole state of affairs could never rapidly devolve into an emotional, sexual, existential nightmare…
Featuring domesticated primates, melancholy marionettes, Freud, non sequiturs, emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and visits to the seventh-and-a-half floor. Come be all that someone else can be!
The auspicious feature film debut of both visionary music-video director Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is a frazzled fantasy gut-buster, set into motion when puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) lands a corporate job at the mysterious “LesterCorp” and stumbles across a portal that leads to the mind of John Malkovich (John Malkovich, naturally), allowing him - and wife Cameron Diaz, and co-worker crush Catherine Keener - to hijack the increasingly disconcerted actor for 15 minutes at a time. Never has Kaufman’s writing been more overtly queer than in BEING JOHN MALKOVICH as Diaz’s character, inhabiting Malkovich’s body, quickly moves from egg to gender euphoria! Surely this whole state of affairs could never rapidly devolve into an emotional, sexual, existential nightmare…
Featuring domesticated primates, melancholy marionettes, Freud, non sequiturs, emasculation, slapstick, Abelard and Heloise, and visits to the seventh-and-a-half floor. Come be all that someone else can be!