Mikey and Nicky finds Cassavetes' bookie Nicky hiding out in a fleabag motel. Convinced a hit has been put out on him, he calls on his lifelong best friend and fellow low-level mobster, Mikey (Falk) to help him flee town. The two embark on a classic long, dark night of the soul, in which their various personal resentments and betrayals, as well as their mutual and deep-seated self-loathing is borne to the surface. But for as heinous as they are often shown to be - especially in their treatment of women in a handful of disturbing scenes - our hearts can't help but break for them - especially Cassavetes' pitiable Nicky - when the final axe inevitably falls.
Zach Vasquez
Crimereads.com
2020
Mikey and Nicky
Elaine May
1976
https://crimereads.com/the-enduring-noir-legacy-of-john-cassavetes/
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ReplyDeleteAn underrated classic film. It has been said that film noir is about losers and that sums up this movie. The acting and cinematography is dark and forbidding. You can almost taste the cigarette smoke and smell the cheap carpeting in the fleabag hotel. Addictive and depressing. This one and A Woman Under The Influence are Falk's best films. As a footnote, this one of the first movies to be directed by a woman, Elaine May.
ReplyDeleteYeah it's almost a companion movie to Friends of Eddie Coyle
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