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Bernie (2011)
Director: Richard Linklater
Movie review
From Time Out Online
Linklater returns to his small-town Texas roots for this unpredictable, witty, funny-peculiar true tale of a popular mortician and his doomed friendship with a wealthy widow. Black adds a slippery, obsequious veneer to his usual lovable doofus as Bernie, the most popular and generous guy in the town of Carthage, whose one act of unkindness is unfortunately both extreme and highly illegal. Despite its roots in a real tale, this is an unashamedly playful and idiosyncratic film for Linklater, closer to the Wes Anderson of ‘Rushmore’ than to his own back catalogue. The result is slight and sometimes awkward, but very funny and lovingly presented.Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2011
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Jack Black, Matthew McConaughey, Shirley MacLaine full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 104 mins
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