Synopsis
Famed author Truman Capote befriends two murderers while researching his celebrated book, “In Cold Blood” — and finds himself changed to the core.
Disk Information
**Theatrical Feature
**Making of Capote
**Answered Prayers — A Documentary on Truman Capote
**Philip Seymour Hoffman and Director Bennett Miller Commentary
**Director Bennett Miller and Cinematographer Adam Kimmel Commentary
Cast & Crew
Reviews
Capote is a cool and polished hall of mirrors reflecting the ways in which Truman Capote came to write (and be written by) In Cold Blood.
Hoffman goes beyond impersonation to something close to possession.
The almost perfectly realized Capote -- stumbling only in the lack of shading it gives Keener's and Greenwood's characters -- offers a sobering glimpse at what the author had to give up of his soul to achieve his success.
A meditation on the artist's obligations to the art and to society and lines that blur when you cross them.
It's a fully realized look at a time and place as well as a riveting study of career obsessions warring with a sense of justice.
I came in expecting Hoffman's tour de force and left with a fuller appreciation of the quiet yet lethal film around him. Lethal, because what it says about the writer's craft, about what often gets destroyed in the name of creation.
