While on a short layover in Paris, American writer James Lord agrees to be subject of Alberto Giacometti’s titular swan-sketch. What stars as a short stay plays out into an extended yawn. Stanley Tucci steps behind the camera and transforms his original screenplay into something akin to a Fathom Event presentation of a National Theatre Live broadcast. Continuing his career of playing fundamentally bland types, Armie Hammer stars as the ever-flexible Lord. And though he may be the only man ever to use two syllables to pronounce “fuck,” Geoffrey Rush plays Giacometti as a cross between Michel Simon’s drowning “Boudu” and Wim Wender’s haunting rendering of Nick Ray. Unfortunately, no lightning sparks over these placid waters. The closest Tucci comes to visual style is positioning the two actors at either side of the Panavision frame to remind audiences that he popped for an anamorphic lens. Let’s hope he didn’t blow all of his Hunger Games money on this trifle. (2018) — Scott Marks
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