Suss: another literary journal

The Brothers Bloom

by Suss

October 2009

If you missed this film when it was released to the­atres, as we did, right the wrong now it’s on dvd. Like in his first fea­ture, Brick, Rian Johnson lay­ers older forms of sto­ry­telling over a present that’s not quite con­tem­po­rary. The effect here is like a car­toon pop­u­lated with human actors, in that it’s daz­zling, cap­ti­vat­ing, and end­lessly amusing—without neglect­ing the seri­ous­ness of the gen­res it’s play­ing with.