Salon.com > A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Charlie Sheen’s demented non-comeback movie http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/charlie_sheens_demented_non_comeback_movie/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/charlie_sheens_demented_non_comeback_movie/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:47:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13191721 Don’t you have to go away – and have people, like, actually miss you – before you can stage a comeback? But the lack of any noticeable public desire to fall crazy in love with Charlie Sheen all over again is only one of the problems with “A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III,” which features sexy-vengeful Indian maidens, sexy-vengeful drone assassins in garter belts, a funeral for a toucan named Coco, and Charlie Sheen speaking Spanish with the maid. Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most painful films in recent memory. There’s no way I can make it sound coherent, and I can’t tell whether it’s supposed to be a Sheen-specific apologia pro vita sua or a grand artistic experiment by writer-director Roman Coppola (son of Francis and brother of Sofia). Some of both? I guess?

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