It’s Valentine’s Day, and John Malkovich Wants to Funk You
With Nile Rodgers and The-Dream’s help, of course.
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,Who will be the reigning pop girlie of 2025, and why might it be John Malkovich? For one, the actor stars as enigmatic, spooky-ooky pop-god Alfred Moretti in the upcoming A24 film Opus. And for two, legendary guitarist Nile Rodgers and noted Beyoncé collaborator The-Dream co-wrote and produced the music for the project. If anyone’s up to the difficult task of making the sort of music that can establish a fictional character as an icon worth an entire run time of fuss, it’s them. On Valentine’s Day, A24 dropped one of three Moretti tracks featuring Malkovich on vocals, and it’s a certified groove. On “Dina, Simone,” Malkovich seduces over a funky hook, purring about cocaine, blue pills, and a “sweet little thing” who “tastes like she lives life fast.”
In his review of the film from its premiere at Sundance, Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri called Malkovich’s performance the best thing about Opus, which otherwise appears to fall on the more boilerplate side of A24-core thrillers. Let me guess, you’ll say as you watch the trailer. Everything on the lavish private compound of this cultish megalomaniac is not as it seems? The movie also stars Ayo Edebiri, Juliette Lewis, and Murray Bartlett, and it comes out March 14, along with Alfred Moretti’s EP. However it turns out, at least we know we can’t fault the music.
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