Venice Film Festival: Joaquin Phoenix is frighteningly good in Joker

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Venice Film Festival: Joaquin Phoenix is frighteningly good in Joker

By Raphael Abraham

 

Joaquin Phoenix in 'Joker' © 2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved

What if a comic book movie wasn’t a superhero movie?

 

What if it was stripped of all fantasy and derring-do and recast in grim reality and the style of vintage Martin Scorsese?

 

No heroes, no fight sequences, no damsels in distress.

 

Now that sounds truly fantastical.

 

Full Story: https://www.ft.com/content/dad720d6-cd61-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f

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So it's a documentary? 

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