Apparently no relation to Michael Gordon, the fifties-blacklisted filmmaker of An Act of Murder (1948) and I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) and the grandfather of gifted Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stuart Gordon directed Edmond. Gordon, a horror movie director, is experienced at directing David Mamet on stage. But as things go, Edmond is a “Mamet film” because Mamet wrote it, basing his script on his own 1982 playlet.
It’s a slasher film, where the one-night slasher is a Manhattan businessman in his off-hours, but one dressed up in pretentiousness as it charts the slasher’s descent from a miserable marriage to blissful contentment in the arms of his prison cell-mate. Oh, brother—or, rather, oh, bro.
Sparked with misogynistic, racist and homophobic outbursts and tirades, the film takes aim at political correctness and at the toll that the suppression of political incorrectness exacts. As satire goes, the film is lame. It lives instead for its gushes of blood.
William H. Macy plays the lead role. Since Macy himself is married in reality to a nasty-nasty woman not unlike the one that Mamet’s own wife plays in this movie, my advice to her would be: stay away from him anytime he holds a knife. You have no idea how desperate a housewife you could turn out to be.
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EDMOND (Stuart Gordon, 2005)
Apparently no relation to Michael Gordon, the fifties-blacklisted filmmaker of An Act of Murder (1948) and I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951) and the grandfather of gifted Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stuart Gordon directed Edmond. Gordon, a horror movie director, is experienced at directing David Mamet on stage. But as things go, Edmond is a “Mamet film” because Mamet wrote it, basing his script on his own 1982 playlet.
It’s a slasher film, where the one-night slasher is a Manhattan businessman in his off-hours, but one dressed up in pretentiousness as it charts the slasher’s descent from a miserable marriage to blissful contentment in the arms of his prison cell-mate. Oh, brother—or, rather, oh, bro.
Sparked with misogynistic, racist and homophobic outbursts and tirades, the film takes aim at political correctness and at the toll that the suppression of political incorrectness exacts. As satire goes, the film is lame. It lives instead for its gushes of blood.
William H. Macy plays the lead role. Since Macy himself is married in reality to a nasty-nasty woman not unlike the one that Mamet’s own wife plays in this movie, my advice to her would be: stay away from him anytime he holds a knife. You have no idea how desperate a housewife you could turn out to be.
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