[MAX ROSE opens
in Cleveland on Friday September 16th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]
Review by Bob Ignizio
Jerry Lewis goes not for laughs but pathos in MAX ROSE, a film that had its premiere
in Cannes back in 2013 but is just now getting a limited release in U.S.
theaters. It's not hard to understand why it sat on the shelf for so long.
Lewis plays the title character, an elderly jazz pianist
whose wife of 50 years has just passed away. While going through her things,
Max finds seeming evidence of an affair between his wife and another man. The
revelation shakes him to his core, and likely leads to health problems that
land him in an assisted care facility. Eventually Max goes looking for answers,
eventually finding them in anticlimactic fashion.
