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Brilliant and touching

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Couldn't watch beyond first 30 mins. I was enjoying Toby Jones's portrayal but I've never known a movie to chop and change so much. So many short scenes and changes of setting! Including interviews/talking heads for an unexplained reason all in the same setting. Were they for TV? Seemed they were being named for us not some TV audience. Confusing. And who were these people anyhow? In some cases the names didn't help at all. Must say, all that attempt at "sophistication" gave me the irrits anyhow. Maybe these were the true characters of Capote's society. I also find it hard to fathom the eternal interest in In Cold Blood. Capote did not invent True Crime nor the nonfiction "novel." I'll never know if the movie improved or not.

Awesome film - takes some getting used to - unless you find out that the portrayal of the early part if the film is true. Toby Jones was awesome and I comment the casting having scene what Truman looked like and knowing how awesome Jones is. The 'lesser parts' make for an awesome list and all were, as we expect, brilliant(Weaver, Paltrow, Stevenson, Davis, Bogdanovich and Rossellini). Brilliant and MADE the film as the lesser parts. Otherwise the main plot made no sense - essential to the film.A masterwork - screenplay, acting, directing and even the editing and cinematography.Well done indeed.

Toby Jones' uncanny portrayal of author Truman Capote is really the only reason to see "Infamous". Following on the heels of Bennett Miller's "Capote" from 2005, which covers the same ground as "Infamous"--and netted Philip Seymour Hoffman a Best Actor Oscar besides--the film feels like an also-ran. In the aftermath of the senseless killings of an innocent farm family in Kansas, curious Capote and companion Harper Lee descend upon the small town residents of Holcomb for details and facts about the victims for a proposed article Capote hopes to write (which eventually became the fictionalized non-fiction bestseller, "In Cold Blood"). Jones offers a far more flamboyant characterization of Truman Capote than Hoffman's somewhat damp and subdued portrayal (which made him a bit more approachable to the locals). This Capote is a petulant, persistent and flirtatious little man, an outrageous raconteur and celebrity name-dropper with no edit-button—and no desire to tone down his flaming personality to fit in with the people of Holcomb. It would be impossible not to compare the two performances, and each is excellent in its own way, but Hoffman is more effective during the crucial stretch in the story—when Capote interviews the two incarcerated men who committed the murders, and develops an affection for the brooding Perry Smith. Jones and a miscast Daniel Craig (as Smith) can't break through the plastic coating that permeates their scenes together in the prison, and the rest of "Infamous" feels nearly as artificial. Everyone here is working with great style and aplomb, but there isn't much emotion applied to the circumstance surrounding the events in the film. Capote tours the house where the murders took place, but nothing is built upon this…and nothing is accomplished in the friendship between Truman and Harper Lee (played by Sandra Bullock, as if she were stifling a headache). The production is handsome and some of the dialogue passages are very fine, but the picture isn't convincing on the most elemental of levels. Director Douglas McGrath would much rather dwell on a party sequence with Capote and friends learning the Twist rather than probe these tumultuous personalities with any depth. ** from ****

"INFAMOUS" ~~ THE OTHER BETTER CAPOTE ... Directed by Douglas McGrath who also wrote the screenplay for Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994) and directed Paltrow in Jane Austen's "Emma", 1996. Starring Toby Jones as Truman Capote -- one of those rare cases where the actor did not "play" the role but completely entered the skin of the real life character in question. Incredibly "Infamous" was on last night on Hungarian TV, Dubbed into Hungarian but I watched it anyway, for the body language and Production values. And the general feeling of the movie. I had forgotten what an important role a deglamourised Sandra Bullock had in this picture as Capote's constant companion throughout. But the fact that this major Hollywood star was content to take a supporting role to an unknown British actor is a real mark of her professionalism. Interestingly, she smokes in just about every scene she's in, which I assume was just for the requirements of the picture. Toby Jones is head and shoulders better than Seymour Hoffman was in the role, Besides the fact that he is a dead ringer for minuscule real life Capote whereas Bulky Seymour wasn't even close. If there were anything resembling integrity In the Hollywood film world, Jones should have been a walkaway for best actor in 2007 and Bullock would have been a very worthy candidate for Best Supporting actress, female -- Come to think of it, they oughta have a special slot for "Best supporting role by a star leading actor/actress willing to take a back seat" in a quality picture.I saw "Infamous" at the 2006 Venice film festival and recognized it then as an unsung masterpiece, far far better than the Hoffman caricature earlier the same year. It opens with an incredible turn by Gwyneth Paltrow in a long white gown as Peggy Lee doing the old standard "This must Be Love" -- but she is so touched by the inherent sadness of the song that she breaks down in the middle and has to stop. What an opener! ~ possibly the best single scene Paltrow has ever done. Which sets the tone for everything to come. A series of interviews follows with celebrity contemporaries of Capote speaking to the camera and identified by name with on screen titles which gives the picture a documentary feel, but the name celebrities are themselves celebrity actors such as Sigourney Weaver and especially, Peter Bogdanovich as Bennet Cerf. I think this is definitely one of the very best pictures of the Decade, 2000- 2010, and one that I would like to own so I could watch it over and over. And don't forget Daniel Craig (later to be Dubble 007!) as death row killer Perry Smith who Capote falls in love with! The prison interviews are filmed in a kind of chiaro-oscuro and the 1959 Period atmosphere is unobtrusively authentic-- without parading collectors vintage cars across the screen in every outdoor scene. "Infamous", 2006, is a true gem in every respect but fell between the cracks because it was overshadowed by the hullabaloo over the distinctly inferior Sony Pictures production -- a classic case of the triumph of publicity over Quality.