Capote and Moneyball director Bennett Miller focuses his lens on the darker side of American ambition again with Foxcatcher.
The stranger-than-fiction true-story centres on the brutal 1996 murder of Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) at the hands of the sinister and eccentric millionaire John du Pont played Steve Carell.
As the heir to the DuPont Co. chemical empire, Du Pont befriended a number of Olympians at the wrestling facility he founded on his sprawling estate. That's where he trained and eventually murdered Schultz — a crime for which he was later convicted.
It's an unusually dark role for Carell, who established his career with comedies like the American version of The Office and The 40-year-old Virgin .
Carell's performance in Foxcatcher is already generating whispers of an Academy Award.
"It's those things that Oscar voters tend to fall for," says CBC's film critic Eli Glasner, "in terms of the transformation, like 'Oh my God. He's not the funny man anymore.'"
At the film's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, director Bennett Miller told CBC that Carell's metamorphosis was very "organic."
"There is a side of him he never shows people," explained Miller. "Generally speaking, comedic actors have something going on that they never show anybody and to me it felt very natural, very organic for him to be in this role because he was game."
Co-star Channing Tatum joked that Carell's transformation was so complete he felt like he still hasn't worked with him.
"I don't know who Steve Carell is," said Tatum, "it was really intense."
Despite the engaging performances, audiences should prepare to give themselves over to what Glasner warns "is a long, slow burn of a film."
"But the ending,'" he says, "comes like a shotgun."
Foxcatcher, also starring Anthony Michael Hall, Vanessa Redgrave and Sienna Miller, opens in select theatres this weekend.
Watch Eli Glasner's full review in the video above.
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