Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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Big Fish (2003). Photofest.
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(Tim Burton, US 2003, 125 min., 35mm)
Albert Finney. Lyrical and lush, full of Tim Burton’s fantastical visual imagery and oddball characters (like conjoined Chinese vocal sister act Ping and Jing, among others), Big Fish relates the whoppingly eccentric life of Ed Bloom (Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor share the role) whose tall tales once entertained his now estranged son Will (Billy Crudup). Hoping that reality will finally prevail, Will tries one last time to engage his dying father and sort out the truth from the fiction.