Synopsis
Charles Swan III, a successful graphic designer, has it all: fame, money and devilish charm that have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. But when a perplexing beauty named Ivana suddenly ends their relationship, Charles is left heartbroken. With the support of his loyal intimates - Kirby, Saul, and his sister, Izzy – Charles begins a delirious journey of self-reflection to try and come to terms with a life without Ivana. "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III" is an unconventional melodrama told in a bold and playful style.
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Cast
- Charlie SheenCharles Swan III
- Jason SchwartzmanKirby Star
- Bill MurraySaul
- Katheryn WinnickIvana
- Patricia ArquetteIzzy
- Aubrey PlazaMarnie
- Dermot MulroneyDoctor
- Mary Elizabeth WinsteadKate
- Paul BenshoofCharlie Dancing Double
- Angela LindvallVeiled Woman
Recommendations
- 67
The Playlist
A film of surface pleasures, even joys, but those joys seem to be longing for a central idea around which to coalesce. - 60
Variety
Swan is more of a doodle than a fully formed idea, though not necessarily less enjoyable for it, since it was clearly intended to be an undisciplined, anything-goes kinda story. - 40
Time Out
Fellini used to get away with such slender crises, but he had Marcello Mastrioanni behind the shades, as well as a more vivid penchant for psychosexual fantasy. Coppola and Swan are stuck in their obsessions with dorky album art and old-man cocktails at Musso & Frank. A precious, arid thing, Glimpse arrives pinned to Styrofoam like a prize arthropod. - 40
Village Voice
With neither the moral bite of satire nor a voluptuary surrender that really basks in shallowness, this is a vague, unsatisfying work. - 40
Time
All this eye candy is ultimately only about as engaging as watching kids at play, which is what Sheen and Schwartzman seem to be doing. I can’t argue that this isn’t an accurate glimpse inside some man’s mind — perhaps Austin Powers? - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
With such an in-house cast of extended Coppola family sparklers, one would think things couldn’t go too wrong in the comedy department, but they have little chance to oil the wheels of a creaky script written around Sheen. - 25
Slant Magazine
The film speeds ahead with almost gleeful disinterest in dealing with the narrative challenges it sets up before resolving them in the most perfunctory ways imaginable. - 20
Salon
Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most painful films in recent memory.
