Sundance film festival 2013: Don Jon – first look review

Sundance has its favourite sons and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is becoming a prolific prince of Park City. The 31-year-old has virtually grown up in front of a crowd here, starring in world premieres of Mysterious Skin, Brick, (500) Days Of Summer and Hesher. He’s brought his own short films to the festival and now comes the feature directorial debut. Gordon-Levitt wants a hand in everything. Not long ago he launched the collaborative producers’ group hitRECord.org, which is emblazoned over this movie’s credits. In his on-stage introduction, the savvy little entrepreneur even told us which hashtag to use when tweeting about the movie. I suspect the most appreciative 140-character shout-outs for Don Jon will come from horny teenage boys. Gordon-Levitt’s R-rated rom-com is a frequently boorish tale about a superficial Jack the Lad who grows up, and has at its heart a sweet message about love. The man himself plays the eponymous Jon, an east coast Catholic cheeky chappy who works as a barman, pumps iron in front of a mirror and shags anything that moves. He is a conservative archetype who speaks his mind, loves his family, his pad, his car and his women. Jon wears his heart on his sleeve,… Read full this story

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