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Backtrack
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Total votes: 171
Average Rating: 2.9
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Year: 1990
Genre: Drama
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Director: Dennis Hopper, Alan Smithee
Cast: Jodie Foster,
Dennis Hopper,
Vincent Price,
Charlie Sheen,
Dean Stockwell, John Turturro, Fred Ward, Tony Sirico, Helena Kallianiotes, Catherine Keener
Dennis Hopper directed, as well as acted in, this moody mess from 1989, which was barely seen for a couple of years until getting a boost from the rising fame of its star, Jodie Foster. Looking startlingly young, Foster plays a conceptual artist who witnesses a mob hit, thus becoming a target herself for an assassin (Hopper). But instead of killing her, Hopper's killer falls in love, demonstrating his passion by stalking her at a distance, "owning" her every move and keeping her in exile from ordinary life. The resulting isolation squeezes Foster's creative spirit, forcing her to confront doubt and self-loathing--everything that artists suffer as the price for self-expression. Deeply self-conscious, with a calculatingly meditative tone that becomes inseparable from Hopper's tenacious voyeurism (the film's most obvious commercial hook--Foster's nude scene--is almost prayerful in its pathology), Backtrack wants to be a confessional fable about the artistic process. Instead, it's a muted yet rambling confession about the sinner inside a filmmaker, which would be great if Backtrack were, say, Rear Window. But it surely isn't.
Source: Tom Keogh (Amazon.com)
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