Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Now they sit in the golden glow of Southern California and bicker.
Larrys interested in the discrepancy between the fictions and reality.
His parents, especially his father, Irving, are not.
Yet Whites script cant quite live up to the pictures immediacy.
The scene conveys a certain fragile masculine peacocking, and Lane and Burstein play off each other well.
He puts a lot of potential material on the table and then leaves it there.
The effect is somewhere between stately and stasis.
The plays nearly timeless memory-based structure does not help the forward momentum.
The most tantalizing thread of all is the notion that theres something self-infantilizing in Larrys whole process.
Filial reverence dominates, and thats not what the pictures themselves are getting at.
Perhaps that proves the whole projects larger point: It is awfully hard to color-correct a rose-tinted lens.
Pictures From Homeis at Studio 54.
Thank you for subscribing and supporting our journalism.
