Reiner could’ve shot each call separately and just edited them together but nope.
One large room, real phones lines, and captured in one take with about 60 attempts… it’s a symphony.
He was such a phenomenal storyteller.
While you watch what took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, remember that when the Nazis and Hitler’s Gestapo killed innocent people in Germany, they too gaslit the public into believing those people were criminals.
The only way a government can get away with killing people is by
The Holdovers (2023) feels like something pulled from the 70s and lost in time. It’s rare to see a film this genuine slip so effortlessly into instant-classic territory.