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Sir Anthony Hopkins might be used to getting rave reviews for his acting, but he is going to have to cope with a new kind of critique as a director. The Welsh actor premiered his low-budget film Slipstream at the Sundance Film Festival to a decidedly mixed audience. But after writing, directing, composing the score and starring in the film, Hopkins has brushed aside criticism, calling the film 'a bit of fun'. The film, which also stars Christian Slater and Hopkins's wife Stella Arroyave, premiered at the edgy New Frontier section of the festival this week. It was met with confusion as people wondered what the plot, which sporadically slips between reality to a film-within-a-film premise, actually meant. James Mottram from The Independent was certainly not a fan.
He writes, 'Anthony Hopkins must have staged his own [David] Lynch retrospective before he made Slipstream, a film in contention for the biggest howler of Sundance.
'The last time he directed was in 1996, delivering the stately and sure-footed Uncle Vanya reworking, August. But this story of a screenwriter named Felix Bonhoeffer (played by Hopkins) who suffers a mindbending meltdown, is at the...