Matt Donato is a Los Angeles-based film critic and member of the Critics Choice Association. Don’t feed him after midnight.
The Big Picture Writer and director Christy Hall selects a challenging route for her feature debut Daddio. The film unfolds inside a New York City taxi cab, flipping between backseat closeups or dashboard wide angles. Money saved on production locations is spent on A-list actors, but too much relies on chatty banter between a duo of performers who shoulder the film's entire weight.
Release Date September 1, 2023 Director Christy Hall Cast Dakota Johnson , Sean Penn , Marcos A. Gonzalez , Shannon Gannon Runtime 101 Minutes Main Genre Drama Writers Christy Hall Expand What Is 'Daddio' About? Dakota Johnson plays an experienced New Yorker who hails a yellow cab from JFK Airport to Manhattan. She's returning home from Oklahoma’s armpit after a family visit, later at night, with only a drunken horndog of a lover blowing up her phone in search of nudes.
Johnson and Penn are glued to interior upholstery, locked in a competition to one-up personal shitstorms, while cinematographer Phedon Papamichael abuses split diopter windows. Against these restrictions, there's a sincerity to their no-holds-barred discussions. Something is endearing about the catharsis each finds confessing painful truths to veritable nobodies, but also fabricated about their whimsical cab ride filled with safe existential soul-searching.
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