'For all the delightful surprises packed into Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film — starting with its title, “Licorice Pizza” — it may not shock you to learn that it opens with a hell of a pick-up scene.'
That leader was played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, which imparts a certain eerie exhilaration to the opening scenes of “Licorice Pizza.” The pick-up artist here — played by Cooper Hoffman, the late actor’s son — is a 15-year-old go-getter with the showbiz-ready name of Gary Valentine.It’s picture day at a Tarzana high school in the mid-1970s, and Gary, ready to commit his wavy red hair and pimply smile to yearbook posterity, finds himself smitten with a photographer’s assistant named Alana Kane .
But much of “Licorice Pizza” also seems to have been devised by Anderson and his actors, who include not only Alana Haim but also the other members of their working-class Jewish family. With its funny, sometimes farcical developments and infectious little-help-from-my-friends vibe, this is easily the most laid-back picture Anderson’s ever made in his San Fernando Valley backyard.
Back in L.A., a starstruck Alana briefly dates another actor , only to find herself pulled back into Gary’s orbit when he launches his new waterbed business. Over the rest of the film these two will remain in furious motion, forever colliding and separating, as if they were trapped in one of the pinball machines that will become Gary’s next project.
Some of those stories are told here, few of them more arresting than the one starring a hilarious, unnerving Bradley Cooper as Jon Peters, the prolific producer and serial womanizer whose early career as a hairdresser was one of the inspirations for Ashby’s great 1975 comedy, “Shampoo.
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