In Theaters:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Just about as abstruse in conception as his infamous gargantuan novel Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men features a string of literate, unrelenting, and often savagely honest monologues by (frequently disturbed) men identified only by number, speaking to some unnamed interlocutor located somewhere behind the reader’s eyes. Its verve and wordplay make for dazzling reading, but it’s all set at a critical emotional remove, as though written with gloves on. As source material for a film, it would seem sheer death…
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men opens today in limited release. You can read the full review at filmcritic.com.
Chris Barsanti 