One Battle After Another
Action film by Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza, Magnolia) about a group of former revolutionaries who must return to action after sixteen years to rescue the daughter of one of their own. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn.
The trailer may look like a mainstream action film, but this is indeed the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson, director of some of the best films of the twenty-first century (There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread). And so there is every reason to assume that this will be more than just a genre film.
One Battle After Another is loosely based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, whose book Inherent Vice was also adapted for the screen by Anderson. Pynchon explores the social legacy of the 1960s and takes a critical look at how the political ideals of the hippie generation became corrupted. In Anderson’s free interpretation of the novel, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a civil rights activist who joins an anti-government group to fight an organisation of white supremacists led by Sean Penn. (mv)