Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot Iike Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for this compeIling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's pIay, from director Nicolas Roeg . With a
combination of whimsy and dread, Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of coId war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nucIear fears. Insignificance is a delirious, intelIigent drama, featuring magnetic performances by Michael Emil as "the professor,"
Theresa RusselI as "the actress," Gary Busey as "the baIIplayer," and Tony Curtis as "the senator." |