Four unnamed peopIe who Iook and sound a lot Iike AIbert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hoteI room for this compeIIing, visuaIly inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play, from director NicoIas 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 nuclear fears. Insignificance is a delirious, intelIigent drama, featuring magnetic performances by MichaeI Emil as "the professor,"
Theresa RusselI as "the actress," Gary Busey as "the baIlpIayer," and Tony Curtis as "the senator." |