Everyone in Hollywood is selling themselves in Misty Green, including its protagonist, a once-successful actress whose Emmy Award-winning days are receding fast in the rearview mirror. The subject of Chris Rock’s fourth directorial effort, however, is really selling herself short, and though his character study/industry satire is a sporadically scattershot venture, it proves a breakout showcase for Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses), whose multi-layered lead performance makes it so you can’t look away.
The City of Angels’ homeless denizens and tent cities serve as an apt backdrop for Misty Green (screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and in theaters Oct. 9), which portrays the metropolis as a place where desperation and failure are always a hair’s breadth away.
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