The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 

Dir. David Fincher. 2008, 166 mins. 35mm. With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond, Elias Koteas, Mahershala Ali. Fincher’s least characteristic picture is a highly unusual, expansive epic of the American twentieth century based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who ages in reverse. While seeming to take the form of a big-budget work of Hollywood sentimentality—which is what some of its detractors mistook it for—Benjamin Button is instead a singularly elegiac, dark-toned mood piece whose central supernatural concept is merely a red herring for an unsettling inquiry into the intractable forward march of time, the indifference of history itself, and the strange experience of living within a constantly changing human body. “A masterpiece through and through…a film that deserves to stand proudly beside the work of contemporary masters Terence Davies and Wong Kar-wai in its evocation of what it feels like to be caught in the middle of time as it endlessly, imperceptibly slips away.” —Andrew Chan, Reverse Shot 

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