Motor City

Would Motor City be a better film without the gimmick? Which is? No dialogue. Or not much anyway. Five lines, the blurbs say, though even that might be an exaggeration. Director Potsy Ponciroli made Old Henry a few years ago, and I liked that. So I gave him the benefit of the doubt and waded in, finding the wordlessness by turns charming, fascinating, irritating and cute but ultimately rewarding. You have to surrender yourself to his conceit, I reckon, which I eventually did. Dialogue is not strictly that important anyway, this being the story of a dude in 1970s Detroit who is fitted up for a crime he didn’t commit – he’s been … Read more