That film played around with conflicting accounts and faulty memory, as does his new film American Animals, a tricksy account of a heist which swerves between interviews with the older, wiser people portrayed in the movie and the events themselves performed by actors, without ever losing the breathless pace of a caper movie. It’s a clever film even when its characters are the opposite. Who on earth goes to Amsterdam to meet a dodgy art-world fence played by Udo Kier? From the get-go, American Animals is defined by dumb ideas. The pair are joined by two childhood chums – Erik Borsuk (Jared Abrahamson) and Chas Allen (Blake Jenner) – to carry out the robbery.

Source: The Irish Times September 06, 2018 14:26 UTC