A sublime, laid-back jazz-based soundtrack (Daniel Pemberton, Winston Marsalis, Thom Yorke and Flea) supports a quiet, lovingly-made mood piece of a feature.
Lonely, affected by Tourette’s, Edward Norton is a private detective out to find who killed his boss and only friend, Bruce Willis. It’s 1950s New York and anything goes in the public planning offices. Corruption is rife as Norton finds himself supporting Gugu Mbatha-Raw and a group involved in a battle against all-powerful official Alec Baldwin.
A labour of love (written, directed and produced by Norton, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Lethem), Motherless Brooklyn, with its real sense of time and place, is a slow, gentle homage to its genre.
Rating: 73%
Director: Edward Norton (Keeping the Faith)
Writer: Edward Norton – adapted from the novel by Jonathan Lethem
Main cast: Edward Norton (American History X, Birdman), Bruce Willis (Die Hard, The Sixth Sense), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle, Concussion)
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