David Foster Wallace's 1999 short-story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men has been turned — by writer-director John Krasinski (The Office) — into a blunt, scrappy, intermittently perceptive drama. It's a series of toxic-pill relationship vignettes broken up by interviews with the male characters, most of whom prove, beneath their ''enlightened'' liberal-humanist facades, to be lying, lecherous, brutally self-justifying...men.
At times, the movie could have been called Me and You and
Every One of the Bastards We Know, but Krasinski preserves Wallace's whooshing roller coasters of words, powered by the fuel of confession
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (2009)
David Foster Wallace's 1999 short-story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men has been turned — by writer-director John Krasinski (The Office) — into a blunt, scrappy, intermittently perceptive drama. It's a series of toxic-pill relationship vignettes broken up by interviews with the male characters, most of whom prove, beneath their ''enlightened'' liberal-humanist facades, to be lying, lecherous, brutally self-justifying...men.
At times, the movie could have been called Me and You and
Every One of the Bastards We Know, but Krasinski preserves Wallace's whooshing roller coasters of words, powered by the fuel of confession
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