When her beau finally has enough, she skitters back to her old hometown in a half-hearted effort to get her life on track. We first meet his heroine, Gloria (Anne Hathaway), just as she hits rock bottom: an out-of-work writer sponging off of her long-suffering boyfriend (Dan Stevens) and kicking her drinking problem into high gear. He starts with a typical – yet undeniably affecting – dramedy as a foundation, then builds up from there. It’s that he does so while making the resulting cocktail of tone and genre feel like the most natural thing in the world.Ī little magical realism helps, since that allows him to do what he’s going to do without wrestling down a logical explanation.
It’s not just that he pulls off such a strange and disorienting combination. If he can do that and get a 50-foot lizard-thing running amuck in Seoul, so much the better. He wants to talk about relationship abuse, alcoholism, the ability of the Internet to distort our perceptions, and a host of other notions. Now he turns his eye towards new territory, but as usual for him, the giant monsters are just part of the picture. For proof, check out his 2007 debut Timecrimes (using a limited cast and almost no effects to give the time travel genre a brilliantly twisting near-masterpiece) or his brilliant opening to the otherwise reprehensible the ABCs of Death (seriously, you could watch the first five minutes and then turn the remainder off).
We should have expected as much from director Nacho Vigalondo, who approaches genre filmmaking in quietly brilliant ways every time he steps behind the camera. It’s safe to say that you haven’t ever seen a giant monster movie like Colossal before. Starring: Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, Tim Blake Nelson and Austin Stowell
Anne Hathaway, Colossal, Jason Sudeikis, Nacho Vigalondo, Tim Blake Nelson
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