The genius that is Tim Burton delivers another quirky film, Big Eyes, based on the true story of artist Margaret Keane (Amy Adams).
It follows her life in the 1950s after she runs away from her suffocating marriage, taking her daughter and a few of her paintings - paintings of wide eyed (and slightly creepy) children - only to run into another, somewhat more suffocating marriage with Walter Keane (Christopher Waltz), an artist of Parisian sceneries ... or so he says.
You can tell it's a Tim Burton film from the very first scene, the aesthetic is true to his style and Keane's paintings fit in eerily well, as does Lana Del Rey's soundtrack for the movie, with its hypnotising, cinematic tones.
As I watched the film I felt that on some level Burton was using the story of a kitsch artist to make a statement on his own kitsch films and rebut his critics, as throughout the film Keane's art gets criticised for being quirky, commercialised and over produced; something that can perhaps be said about Burton's own style.
The film was weirdly enjoyable, in a creepy dream / nightmare sort of way - you feel as though this could never be all real... but it was.
Rated: 3 big eyes and a wink
-Alessandra
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