Sympathy For Delicious won Jury prize

Sympathy For Delicious won a special jury prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony, held at the Racquet Club on Saturday evening, and here’s another review of the movie from Film Stew.

Perhaps it is because they have been friends for so long that Thornton and Ruffalo share better chemistry on screen than most couples in rom-coms. Individually, they are terrific, but arguably the most impressive performance in the movie belongs to Orlando Bloom as the Diphthongs’ flamboyant lead singer. If anyone had any questions about Ruffalo’s ability to direct actors, Bloom’s turn answers it. So frequently colorless in movies as diverse as Elizabethtown and The Pirates of the Caribbean, here he emerges as a rock ‘n’ roll peacock in a big, vibrant performance. Full review.

There’s another review at USA Today and Orlando talked about his character on Hitfix

Orlando Bloom took on his first role as a rock star in the Mark Ruffalo-directed “Sympathy for Delicious,” but fans of the actor shouldn’t count on him quitting the biz to take on the music world by storm. “I had a lot of fun. But, no, I don’t think I’m going to be doing an album any time soon,” Bloom said at Sundance this week, where the film premiered.

The 33-year-old English cited the Stone Roses’ Ian Brown and the Gallagher brothers from Oasis as his inspiration for this role as The Stain in “Sympathy,” who, as previously reported, is the fame-whoring, self-important frontman of the band in the film. He takes in main character Dean — aka Delicious D (Chris Thornton) who can heal people with his hands — as part of the band in an attempt to rake in publicity.

“I just felt like he could be a really belligerent, egotistical, narcissistic rock star if I placed him in the north of England… no offense.to people in the north of England,” he said. “But it just worked really well.” Bloom had a little help from Cedric Bixler from the Mars Volta on singing tips, and it shows: the performance in the film is hyperbolic, borderline operatic. First-time director Ruffalo was a patient director, Bloom said, as “it was amazing to be directed by an actor. Mark’s so sensitive to the process. I was terrified about how to say some of the lines that had been beautifully crafted for the character of The Stain, like ‘I am the Lord by wad of cum.’”

Beautiful, yes.