Up in the Air (2009)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Jason Reitman

Writers: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Walter Kirn

Cinematographer: Eric Steelberg

Composer: Rolfe Kent

Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride

Based on Walter Kirn’s novel, Reitman’s bitter-sweet follow-up to the ridiculously popular Juno (2007), with a typically melancholically charismatic performance from Clooney and an affecting turn from Kendrick, depicts the emotional awakening of a perma-travelling employee of a company which specialises in third party firings, catering to companies not wishing to do the dirty deed for themselves, as he shows the ropes to a young employee who hopes to implement an internet-based technique to make the process even more heinously impersonal. Iain.Stott