In his new column, Notes on Hollywood, MJSchulman considers the Oscar-worthiness of Steven Spielberg’s latest film, “The Fablemans.”
“Seventy-five years of life experience went into this,” Steven Spielberg told the crowd at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, before unveiling his latest film, “The Fabelmans.” This world première was perhaps the biggest curiosity at: it was the first Spielberg-directed movie to be entered at a film festival, and its subject is the director as a young man.
“The Fabelmans” follows a nuclear family’s implosion and the filmmaker who emerges from the wreckage. When we meet the young Sammy Fabelman , he’s about to see his first movie, Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Greatest Show on Earth.” The date—recalled with precision, like that of a nation’s founding—is January 10, 1952. Outside the theatre, Sammy’s father, Burt , an engineer who understands machines better than he understands humans, explains the mechanics of the moving image.
The suburban idyll crumbles as Mitzi becomes closer to Burt’s co-worker and best friend, Bennie , a cutup who has a borscht-belt charisma that Burt lacks—the kids call him “Uncle Bennie.” As a teen-ager, Sammy becomes even more enamored of the movies, corralling his friends into making Westerns and war flicks. One juvenile effort, “Escape to Nowhere,” is a clear forerunner of “”—Sammy’s attempt, as he tells his veteran dad, to simulate “your war.
Spielberg’s œuvre is often seen as an expression of boyish wonder, but “The Fabelmans” makes clear that its primary impulse is terror and trauma. The film only lightly fictionalizes his parents, Leah and Arnold Spielberg , and “Uncle” Bernie Adler, who became Leah’s second husband.
“The Fabelmans” may be an invitation to put Spielberg on the couch, but he hasn’t exactly been a closed book all these years. “ ‘E.T.,’ ” he once said, “was about the divorce of my parents, how I felt when my parents broke up. I responded by escaping into my imagination to shut down all my nerve endings crying, ‘Mom, Dad, why did you break up and leave us alone?’. . . My wish list included having a friend who could be both the brother I never had and a father that I didn’t feel I had anymore.
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