AN American Pickle
Sep 27, 2020
3 minutes
1 THE PROLOGUE
prologue might be its most charming section. Shot in a squared-up aspect ratio with muted Malick-y tones and a voiceover, it paints a picture of the hard-knock life of ditch-digger Herschel Greenbaum (Rogen) in the made-up Eastern European of Schlupsk, 1919. It’s a lovingly drawn world of rickety carts and faulty shovels that only brightens for Herschel when he meets the formidable Sarah (Sarah Snook), wooing her with dead fish. Their relationship is funny — “Her parents were murdered
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