Bruce Springsteen personally delivered the unconventional and highly emotional biopic, Springsteen: Delivery Me Float Me, at the Telluride Film Festival Friday night.
In front of a global cinema, wealthy locals (Oplar!), and crowds of elite industry people, the boss directly showed that he would mark the world premiere of a 20th century studio film led by “Bare” Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White.
Telluride’s executive director Julie Hansinger shed tears in tears introducing Scott Cooper, who adapted the script and directed the project. The filmmakers shared a bit about his personal relationship with Springsteen. The legendary locker housed Cooper, his wife and children in January during the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
“I want to get my home back,” Springsteen joked with his own very short statement before a screening featuring Oscar-nominated Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s longtime manager, John Landau. Cooper also discussed his decision to place white on tightly fitted jeans on the film’s subject matter.
“He had two qualities that I know from the Blues,” Cooper told the Werner Herzog Theatre audience. “The first is humble and the other is a swagger. They don’t teach Swagger at Juilliard.”
Herzog’s audience seemed to agree. Some people sang in sync with the actor, but their veins exploded from their necks, and “born and ran.” Or when he brings sex appeal to a difficult (but sultry) romance involving a single mother (Odessa Young). Perhaps when he as Springsteen he confronts childhood trauma and acknowledges the slow onset of crippling depression.
Stephen Graham (“Adolescent”) is blackmailed as Springsteen’s father via flashbacks. Paul Walter Hauser starred as Mike Butlan in guitar skills, and as with his habits in most of his works, he got all the laughs in the room. The cast are Gaby Hoffmann, David Krumholtz, Marc Maron, Johnny Cannizzaro, Harrison Gilbertson, Chris Jaymes and Matthew Anthony Pellicano (playing young blues).
“Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” is scheduled to be released widely on October 24th.
