Language: English
Cast: Toby Jones (Truman Capote), Sandra Bullock (Nelle
Harper Lee), Daniel Craig (Perry Smith), Peter Bogdanovich (Bennett
Cerf), Jeff Daniels (Alvin Dewey), Hope Davis (Slim Keith), Gwyneth
Paltrow (Kitty Dean), Isabella Rossellini (Marella Agnelli), Juliet
Stevenson (Diana Vreeland), Sigourney Weaver (Babe Paley), John
Benjamin Hickey (Jack Dunphy), Michael Panes (Gore Vidal) and Lee
Pace (Dick Hickock).
Producers: Christine Vachon, Jocelyn Hayes and Anne Walker-McBay;
Director: Douglas McGrath;
Writing credits: Douglas McGrath, based on the book by George
Plimpton
Edited by: Camilla Toniolo
Director of Photography: Bruno Delbonnel;
Music: Rachel Portman
Release Date: October 13, 2006
Production House: Warner Independent Pictures.
Running Time: 118 minutes
Rating: R
Reviews
Weird
but true: two movies released in the same subject in one year. The
other film won the main character Capote – played by Philip Seymore
Hoffman an Oscar but although Toby Jones may not win an academy
award his portrayal of the vain yet sensitive 1960s writer Truman
Capote is different enough from Hoffman’s Capote to make ‘Infamous’
a movie to relish.
The cattiness and the complexity of the lives of the Manhattan
socialites are aptly revealed by the elegant performances of
Sigourney Weaver, Isabella Rosellini and Hope Davis. As the
confidant of Manhattan Matrons Truman Capote was part of the
Island’s social scene till a cold blooded massacre in far off Kansas
takes him and his friend Nelle Harper Lee, played by Miss
congeniality herself – Sandra Bullock, to the rural heartland of the
US of A. As the search for the killers continues and Capote
interacts with the killer Perry Smith played by the next James Bond
- Daniel Craig – we find the movie moving away from the portrayal of
Miller’s ‘Capote’. Where in ‘Capote’ Hoffman’s character dominates
that of the killer in Infamous Daniel Craig as Perry Smith has
Capote enthralled.
The movie captures the era and the frustrations and vulnerabilities
of its characters hauntingly. Daniel Craig’s performance as the
villain is memorable – hopefully his Bond will be something to look
forward to. ‘Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Fear’ star Mark Whalberg may
yet end up regretting giving up the opportunity to play Smith.
‘Infamous’ brings out the dark side life dealing as it does with
Capote’s obsession with Smith as he writes In Cold Blood and lives
through the investigation of the massacre far from his usual
habitat. Kansas is stark after the opulence of the Manhattan social
scene but a perfect backdrop to the investigation of the heinous
crime led by Jeff Daniels’ character Alwin Dewey. George Plimpton’s
book on the life of the literary figure and his brush with stark
reality has been ably recreated in Infamous – notwithstanding the
repetition of the tale in less than a year.
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