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Original title: Elvis
Year: 2022
Running time: 159 min.
Country: Australia
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Screenwriter: Jeremy Doner, Sam Bromell, Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce. Story: Jeremy Doner, Baz Luhrmann
Music: Elliott Wheeler
Cinematography: Mandy Walker
Cast: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Richard Roxburgh, Helen Thomson, David Wenham, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Kodi Smit-McPhee, Dacre Montgomery, Luke Bracey, Xavier Samuel, Kate Mulvany, Natasha Bassett, Charles Grounds, Leon Ford, Josh McConville, Adam Dunn, Gareth Davies, Elizabeth Cullen, Melina Vidler, Yola, Christopher Sommers, Gary Clark Jr., Alton Mason, Shonka Dukureh, David Gannon, Shannon Sanders, Chaydon JaySee 15 More
Producer: Co-production Australia-United States;
Bazmark Films, Roadshow Entertainment, Warner Bros., Whalerock Industries, The Jackal Group. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Genre: Drama | Biography. Music. 1950s. 1960s. 1970s
Synopsis: The film explores the life and music of Elvis Presley (Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Hanks). The story delves into the complex dynamic between Presley and Parker spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America. Central to that journey is one of the most significant and influential people in Elvis’s life, Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).

Rankings Position

#2 Best Australian Movies of all time
#5 Top 50 Rated Movies from 2022
#47 Best Biopics/Biographical Movies

Awards: 2022: Cannes Film Festival: Official Selection (Out of Competition)

Critics' reviews

"A fizzy, delirious, impishly energized, compulsively watchable 2-hour-and-39-minute fever dream"

Owen Gleiberman: Variety
"Butler thrillingly succeeds, especially in the film’s first half, with an authentic rhythm that makes us wonder what greater heights Elvis could have climbed had he not succumbed to the dark side"

Pete Hammond: Deadline
"If the writing too seldom measures up to the astonishing visual impact, the affinity the director feels for his showman subject is both contagious and exhausting"

David Rooney: The Hollywood Reporter
"'Elvis' is a wild ride clearly made with a big hunk o' love for its subject, and that zeal for capturing Presley’s humanity, both by its director and its star, outweighs the film’s excesses"

Jim Vejvoda: IGN
"[It] misses one of Luhrmann’s strengths as a filmmaker, which is his ability to suffuse clichés with sincerity, energy and feeling."

Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
2Austin Butler gives a performance worthy of the King, but he's buried alive under a rhinestone rollercoaster of weak biopic tropes."

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"Baz Luhrmann dleefully distorts legend’s life in extravagant biopic (...) The Australian director’s film is part spirited homage to a titanic force in American music"

Steve Pond: The Wrap
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