Movie review – Up in the Air (2009)
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For a movie set in a sour economy, "Up in the Air" is very crafty about lobbing to the sweet spots of all concerned. It is smooth as glass, destined for a big audience and many awards. It is actively impossible to dislike, even when its protagonist is doing nominally dislikable things. Adapting the Walter Kirn novel, co-writer and director Jason Reitman ran the source material through the de-glib-erizer and handed George Clooney a nice big comfortable leading role as Ryan Bingham, downsizing expert and well-tailored hatchet man for an Omaha firm specializing in delivering bad news to laid-off employees.
Bingham is a man without a city. He spends six weeks out of the year in his unbearably drab apartment. The rest of the time he is flying, or about to. He has little in the way of meaningful personal connections, either to friends, sometime-lovers (a neighbor across the hall) or family. One sister in northern Wisconsin, played by Melanie Lynskey, is getting married; Bingham may go to the wedding or, fulfilling his other sister's low expectations of him, he may not. (Amy Morton is very droll as the other sister.)
He warms up screenplays so that, in his first and highly auspicious feature, "Thank You For Smoking," a rakish Big Tobacco lobbyist's progress became the stuff of better father/son relations. (That theme was there in the novel, but Reitman foregrounded it.) If Reitman had followed screenwriter Diablo Cody's script directives in his second film, "Juno," the film would've been far more broadly comic and, I suspect, a lot less popular. "Up in the Air" has been shaped for Clooney's prodigious, slightly melancholy charm as a comic leading man. Happily he has worthy sparring partners.
Vera Farmiga plays Alex, whom Bingham meets in a classically anonymous airport hotel bar one night. They compare notes on rental car firms, loyalty programs, frequent flier miles and quickly realize they're made for each other. The only question is the relationship's expiration date. Farmiga has never been better than she is here. Rarely does she get to do comedy, and she and Clooney give "Up in the Air's" sustained air of engaging disengagement a heartbeat as well as a romantic charge.
The other key character, a tightly wound whiz kid Bingham's forced to mentor, is played by Anna Kendrick, who has a way of spitting out each line as if it were a nail coming out of a nail gun. Her character proposes the Omaha company bring in their "road warriors" and start firing people via iChat. This raises Bingham's hackles and makes him more sympathetic.
Seeing "Up in the Air" earlier this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, its limited ambitions bugged me. Catching it again this week, I see how it could end up with best picture of 2009.
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