Chichester Cinema at New Park
Up in the Air
OSCAR NOMINATIONS
George Clooney - Performance by an actor in a leading role
Vera Farmiga - Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Anna Kendrick - Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Directing
Best picture
Adapted screenplay
BAFTA winner: Best Adapted Screenplay - Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner
From the director of ‘Juno’, a sharply scripted and crisply directed story set in the world of high flying business travel.
George Clooney is at his smooth, sardonic best as Ryan Bingham, a management consultant specialising in the field of firing people for companies that are downsizing. His work takes him around the country, helping him pursue his private goal of accumulating ten million miles in his frequent flyer account and with it, entry to an elite club.
Faced by a threat posed by a new recruit with a plan to introduce video links which would effectively ground Bingham and his colleagues, he talks his way into one last round trip, in which he will show her the ropes, and persuade his boss to stick with the status quo. This time he has an added incentive, having just met Alex (Vera Farmiga), the beautiful and sassy frequent-traveller of his dreams.
With its sharp script and crisp direction, ‘Up in the Air’ is a pleasurable story of a supremely self-sufficient (or perhaps plain self-centred) lone-wolf having to re-assess his priorities. And while Bingham is the film's driving force, Reitman gives his female characters a welcome depth and complexity too.
USA · 2009 · Jason Reitman · 104min
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