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(&' "* !(&, "* &( (&,% "* & (&#$/0## "- "* '%!- # &%&' ($ '"&( %$#' $'"# ','("' $"%)(&' )#(' # ") "$&! # $& ! # # &%& $%($#'QUEER CLiPSElysium. With that bone structure and thosesteely eyes, Jodie Foster is naturally designedto seem patrician, even when she’s playing arape victim or a hillbilly. It’s just her lot. So itdoesn’t require any effort for her to portray theelegant, French-speaking defense minister ofthe orbiting Eden known as Elysium, where inthe future, all the rich folks live happily whileearth-bound humans live in squalor. And I meanno effort, because she puts in none here; it’slike watching someone cash a paycheck.She’s hardly the worst thing about this Robo-Cop-in-space movie, though, which, on its ownterms, passes as summer entertainment —cool slo-mo explosions, a few exciting actionscenes — as long as you don’t expect more.The writer-director, Neill Blomkamp (District 9)has made a futurist sci-fi parable without muchthought about the futuristic part. Aside from L.A.looking like 1990s Sarajevo and the use of hovercraft,nothing really suggests 150 yearshence: Not the clothing or the language or reallythe attitudes. Blomkamp is so interested in hismessage about the inevitable results of theone-percenters, he forgets to tell a real story.Elysium is predictable, its smug navelgazing undercuttingits bite. Two stars.Lovelace. Linda Lovelace was a boringwhite-trash teenager until, for a brief time in the1970s, she became the most celebrated pornstar ever, based solely on her oral skills in thecrossover X-rated hit Deep Throat. Hers was anold-fashioned Fellatio Alger tale. Only it was reallya nightmare.Linda spent less than three weeks in theporn biz, but was horribly exploited, which directorsRob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (thedocumentarians behind The Times of HarveyMilk and The Celluloid Closet) tell in a sly, Mobius-stripfashion, starting the film over midwaythrough — first presenting a sanitized version,then one that makes us question all we’veseen. Amanda Seyfried does commendablework as Linda (she’s unrecognizable in the laterscenes), but Peter Sarsgaard as her abusivehusband and a breathtaking Sharon Stone asher icy mom get the money shots. Four stars.Blue Jasmine. I don’t know this for a fact,but I bet Woody Allen got the idea for this scriptwhen he saw a woman in a Balenciaga dressand Prada shoes talking to herself on a parkbench and wondered what could bring a personto that point. What he comes up with is mostlydull stuff about a modern-day Blanche DuBois(Cate Blanchett), putting on airs while taxing thepatience of her middle-class sister (SallyHawkins). Like Elysium, it’s a rambling look ateconomic inequality. But Allen’s secret weaponis Blanchett, such a compelling actress shemakes this pretentious, flawed socialite someonewe care about. Two stars.— Arnold Wayne Jones("% *!") &+'&%&( $%*"&% &##) &"*& * & %. ('"(& &( $&( &( & %. &*!( ('"( (-) * !!' +++!!')%($+#$"08.09.13 • dallasvoice 21