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Chapter 27’s Bloated Poster One sheet

It’s rare when an actor is concerned not by the length of a role but instead, by the girth. With Chapter 27 we get a better understanding for the type of preparation that needs to take place in order to gain more latitude for a given role and while I’ve got no clue if the real Mark David Chapman was in the plus size, via the film’s myspace page we see the transformation that skinny-framed Jared Leto underwent to get into character.

Borrowing a cue from the Dunkin Donuts diet that DeNiro went thru with Raging Bull, Leto consumes this character in a selection of murky, solitary interior shots of a run down hotel room. I caught this morbid, indie project sometime around the tail-end of 07’s Sundance edition and find that even the most hardcore of Leto fans will find it difficult to empathize with a character that reminds of the Sgt. Gomer Pile from Full Metal sequence where he cracks an empties a pair of shells in the bathroom.

Even if IFC films programmed competing project The Killing of John
Lennon
earlier in the year, Peach Arch Releasing are still taking a shot with Jarrett Schaeffer’s directorial debut – aiming perhaps towards younger audiences old enough to have read Catcher in the Rye and who know both of the acting leads.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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