A sobering example of how voiceover can complicate what we see. Y Tu Mamá También (2001)Īlfonso Cuarón’s road movie, co-written with his brother Carlos, is lent a harsh edge by the dispassionate narrator (Daniel Giménez Cacho, recently seen in the title role in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama), who interrupts the oversexed young heroes to place their lives in a socio-political context.
“This match is like one of my films,” Porumboiu sighs.
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All we see is the original, grainy TV broadcast while father and son banter in real time.
The director Corneliu Porumboiu (The Whistlers) and his father, Adrian Porumboiu, watch a soccer match that Porumboiu Snr refereed in 1988. Nor is Waldo, who puts a queer slant on this seamy noir. “I shall never forget the weekend Laura died,” purrs the newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) at the start of Otto Preminger’s film, killing off the title character when we have barely taken our seats. Either unavailable to record it or in conflict with the director Francis Ford Coppola (depending on whom you ask), Sheen was replaced by his own brother, Joe Estevez, who also served as his onscreen surrogate in some scenes. John Milius wrote the screenplay, but it was the war correspondent Michael Herr who provided the narration for Martin Sheen to deliver. He is no less carnivorous here as the theatre critic Addison DeWitt. It is fitting that many viewers seeing All About Eve for the first time will shudder at the sound of its narrator, the silk-tongued George Sanders, who later provided the voice of Shere Khan in Disney’s 1967 version of The Jungle Book.
Photograph: Fox/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock 17. Anne Baxter as the duplicitous Eve and George Sanders as the theatre critic and narrator in All About Eve.
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