Crazy Heart

Watched Crazy Heart. It's slow and sweet and has a very simple storyline. It's actually rather uninteresting, but what makes it work is Jeff Bridges. His performance is very tempered; he doesn't milk it. But it's still somehow quietly wonderful.

The movie is about an aging alcoholic country singer who falls in love with a young woman and the two have a brief relationship that he ends up fucking up. Unfortunately, there wasn't particularly strong chemistry between Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhall. They were kind of good together, I mean, I could totally see why it was a great casting decision. But somehow they didn't totally pull it off. I love both of them, but there just wasn't quite a dynamic spark. Still, they conveyed the strong connection, even if it wasn't that sexy or compelling. Sometimes it's incredibly poignant when two isolated people connect, no matter in what way, and that definitely came across...