The film follows a day in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, headquarters of Senator Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign. And about the last day of Bobby Kennedy, on whom his country placed great hopes — in solving racial and social problems, in connection with Vietnam.
- Cacophony as harmony. The film follows a day in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, headquarters of Senator Robert Kennedy’s presidential campaign. And about the last day of Bobby Kennedy, on whom his country placed great hopes — in solving racial and social problems, in connection with Vietnam. But it is he who in the picture exists only in the newsreel, but in reality there are 22 people who lived the last day of the senator’s life as their usual day. In this cacophony of living life, there is an amazing harmony of this film.
- History is like life. The director of «Bobby» demonstrates for us a deeply instructive attitude towards the past of his country — not as a repository of sensations, a reserve of conspiracies, or, conversely, a «golden age», but as a process of life where ordinary people act. And universal criteria of morality are quite applicable to them.
- Radical style. Estevez, the son of a star (Martin Sheen), the brother of a star (Charlie Sheen) and a famous actor himself, having become a director, decisively refused his fellow stars a benefit performance. He shoots them and the environment, stylizing his film as a chronicle — the one with Robert Kennedy, nervous, not at all impartial, which makes up 20% of the image and 80% of the emotional content of the film.
Directed by: Emilio Estevez. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Elijah Wood, Helen Hunt and others. At the box office from April 5th.