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UP IN THE AIR is an unbridled pleasure. It is crisp. It is certain in tone. It has a message and it delivers on its promise. Best yet, its messengers ring true, portraying men and women in all of their glorious complexity.
At its heart is the sublimely seductive George Clooney. There are few actors that radiate charm and intelligence in equal measure. He has proved through his selection of roles and Meryl Streep like ability to step into persona, a personal guarantee of a first rate performance.
Kudos to Jason Reitman. There was courage and sheer genius in the choice of the supporting actors. Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick together brought a voice infrequently heard from Hollywood - that of the intelligent feminine voice, smartly and charmingly rendered.
Farmiga captured the truths of a woman in her prime, her head and heart steeped in a life fully lived; one ready to share her humor, her brain and bed as she strode across the country, airport by airport, earning her stripes as an "ordinary" working woman. Her sparkle and her full female body were a testament to the vagaries of late nights, long hours, and hard work. Her real curves reflected the delight of a glass of wine shared with an understanding companion and the womaly joys of mutual understanding and unexpected pleasure.
Kendrick delivered with no false notes the impetuous certainty of the razor sharp Ivey League mind untempered by cruel experience. Her certainty that hard work, steadfast values, determination, beauty and charm, necessarily produced success in love and life, was a stinging reminder of the optimism of youth. Farmiga's direct, deliciously inviting smile and Kendrick's initially unscathed and prideful one that was tempered into bruised professionalism by the vagaries of life, chronicled the passage of girl to woman.
Based on its sophistication and respect for the highs and lows of the human condition, particularly that of real women, it should win not only an Oscar, but accolades for its determined commitment to an artistic road far too infrequently traveled. Oscar worthy? Absolutely. Girlphyte
