Phoenix and Paltrow make a good match

In an apparent attempt to be in harmony with the increasingly bizarre behaviour of her co-star, Joaquin Phoenix, who as reported here appeared disorientated when he appeared on the David Letterman show earlier this week, Gwyneth Paltrow decided to don a pair of high-waisted lederhosen, bronze lurex top and pixie boots for the world premiere of their film, Two Lovers, on Wednesday night in New York.
 
Despite the controversy surrounding Phoenix, who claims this will be his last movie and that he will now devote all his creative energies to being a rap artist, an early review of the film, described as a dark meditation on love, suggests it might become a hit, albeit a minor one.

"At its core, this small, intimate film is of a type more likely found among European DVDs these days," writes the Los Angeles Times critic, Betsy Sharkey, who finds the casting of Phoenix as the broken-spirited 30-year-old Leonard Kraditor is apt for the space the 34-year-old actor currently appears to be inhabiting.

"[Kraditor] is still very much a lost boy. Like many in his generation who find adulthood and independence elusive," she writes. "There is always that sense of the unexpected in Phoenix that keeps you curious. He tunnels into his characters, and here the physical and emotional awkwardness of youth - the fractured speech, the mix of mischief and uncertainty in his eyes - fuses with a decidedly adult body to create someone forever slightly off-centre." Quite. ·