It’s a strange story: a man who looks nothing like Stanley Kubrick pretends to be a great director.
He is an Englishman, he does not have a beard, he has not even really seen Kubrick’s films, and influential people — famous actors and even a member of parliament — believe that he is a classic of American cinema, imprisoned in the county of Hertfordshire in autism of grandeur …
From this story, modern society is forced to draw a strange moral: if a star avoids publicity, it must be “reinvented” in order to satisfy the appetites of an insatiable public. And a film based on this fact is odd too: written by Kubrick’s longtime assistant Anthony Frewin and directed by Kubrick’s assistant on his latest film, Eyes Wide Shut, Brian W. Cook.
It turns out that they partly filmed their own lives. Isn’t it strange? Well, in the title role here is certainly a strange John Malkovich.
Director: Brian W. Cook. Cast: John Malkovich and others