Steve Buscemi is a wannabe indie film-maker with New Wave aspirations who gets into bed with the wrong producer in Alexandre Rockwell's In the Soup, itself a product of New York's indie scene in the 90s. And while Buscemi makes a good straight man, caught in a whirlwind, rendering some fine narration, the movie really belongs to his financial partner played by Seymour Cassel, an irrepressible free spirit and charming con man who gets the would-be director into a lot of trouble, but also a lot of fun. Cassel has so much joy and passion for life that he's quite off his nut. What a great performance. In the Soup doesn't exactly tell you much about the world of indie film-making; it's really more about the characters and the various zanies around Buscemi, and about an unlikely friendship that perhaps inspires a purer artistic intent for the protagonist than the derivative art house films that interest him initially. But he's not going to come to that realization easily. Bonus performances by Jim Jarmusch, Carol Kane, Sam Rockwell (no relation), Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Beals at her most muse-like. Will Patton as a hard hemophiliac made me laugh out loud.
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This is Seymour's movie - what a performance!Kasparius
Seymour Cassel is phenomenal in this movie.Siskoid
Steve Buscemi is a wannabe indie film-maker with New Wave aspirations who gets into bed with the wrong producer in Alexandre Rockwell's In the Soup, itself a product of New York's indie scene in the 90s. And while Buscemi makes a good straight man, caught in a whirlwind, rendering some fine narration, the movie really belongs to his financial partner played by Seymour Cassel, an irrepressible free spirit and charming con man who gets the would-be director into a lot of trouble, but also a lot of fun. Cassel has so much joy and passion for life that he's quite off his nut. What a great performance. In the Soup doesn't exactly tell you much about the world of indie film-making; it's really more about the characters and the various zanies around Buscemi, and about an unlikely friendship that perhaps inspires a purer artistic intent for the protagonist than the derivative art house films that interest him initially. But he's not going to come to that realization easily. Bonus performances by Jim Jarmusch, Carol Kane, Sam Rockwell (no relation), Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Beals at her most muse-like. Will Patton as a hard hemophiliac made me laugh out loud.MilenaFlaherty
Streaming on Amazon Prime with a restored print.