电影
A comic celebra tion of dreamer s and t heir dreams, LIVING IN OBLIVION is the secon d film writte n and directed by Tom DiCill o. With a tone th at teeter s somewhere bet ween Kafka and the Marx Brothe rs, it chr onicles the h ilarious misadv entures o f a grou p of people who have j oined togethe r to accom plish on e of th e most di fficult goals imaginable - t he making of a low-bud get indepen dent film. Wi th an innova tive and su rprising struct ure that shi fts fluidly b etween the mov ie being made and tho se making i t, the fil m offers a rare and a ccurate -- if comically he ightened -- look behind -the-scenes, with the p eople who make the scen es. How they make the m -- and the fact tha t they manage to m ake them at all -- is wha t LIVING IN OBLI VION is all a bout. S tarring S teve Bu scemi as directo r Nick Reve , LIVIN G IN OBLIVION highlights a day o n the set of Ni ck's film wh ere everyt hing that could po ssibly go wrong, act ually does. S truggli ng agai nst ever-escal ating odds to m aintain his integrity and his sanit y, Nick is bot h helped and h indered by hi s bumbling, if we ll-intentione d crew, headed b y his c inemato grapher Wolf (Dermot Mulron ey), a ca meraman whose l eather gear suggests that he is m ore inspired b y Billy Idol t han Sven Nyk vist; a lead ing lady, N icole (Catherin e Keener ), a talen ted but neuroti c actres s who is invo lved in a roman ce and a rivalry with her leading man, Chad Palo mino (James Le Gros ); an iron-wil led assist ant dir ector, Wanda (Da nielle Von Zernec k); and, for the first t ime ever on- screen, a G affer.！