Michael Martin, Bruce Hadnot, Pete Radcliffe, Pam Harper, Shay Walker.“Smile for the camera, motherf—ers,” warns the graffiti outside the Roaring Twenties, a Las Vegas dive bar where spirits are high because the end is nigh.
The Roaring Twenties is not a real bar. It’s not even in Las Vegas . “Bloody Nose” was filmed over three days in New Orleans, where local actor Mike has performed Faust to glowing acclaim. The directors discovered him as the soused patriarch in a stage production of Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” Yet when Mike, bleary with 2 a.m.
To viewers who aren’t aware of the Ross brothers’ experiment, the chaos can feel unethical. This is “a not-party,” someone quips, and it does feel as though, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, we’re not sure who to trust in wonderland. It’s “The Bachelorette” wed to “The Iceman Cometh”: the setup is staged, but the tears are real. If the viewer knows the conceit, it’s obvious when a line sounds slipped to a performer, like a number scrawled on a napkin.
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