Collage: Emmy Flores Gal, with photos from Licorice Pizza
Love can be sweet and reckless, love can be childish and mature, love can be funny, love can be everything, love can be forever and sometimes it can even be impossible, and that's the story that Paul Thomas Anderson wants to share with us, a story about all of these kind of loves and none.
PTA takes us back to the 1970s, a time we look back on with nostalgia, a time of fun music and wild rides, a time when anything seemed possible.
And that's how things seem for Gary Valentine, our protagonist, a child-actor with entreprenurial dreams and a fixation with cool women. Everything seems to be going well for Gary, until his serendipituos meeting with Alana, the woman that will turn his life upside down, and change his ideas about what love really means.
Gary and Alana seem to have been born for each other... except for one single detail, which I urge you to discover by yourself, by watching this wonderful film.
LICORICE PIZZA seems to have been made by a group of friends having so much fun, and it was. The cast is a mix of friends and family of PT Anderson, who combines familiar faces [Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Maya Rudolph] with newcomer actors - including Cooper Hoffman [the son of the legendary Phillip Seymour Hoffman] who delivers a touching and delighful first turn on film.
The film is full of outrageous situations, tender moments, intense and out of this world characters that run around having fun and trying to find themselves.
The craziest fact about LICORICE PIZZA is that it was inspired by real life events, characters from real life blend their stories with the characters created by PT Anderson, art immitates life, and a coming of age story full of hopes and dreams, becomes one of Anderson's best films, in a filmography already full of gems.
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