Director Chris Weitz has one of the strangest CVs in Hollywood. Name a genre and likely he’ll have dipped in hisfilmmaking toe. Teen comedy? See his pastry shagging debut American Pie, which he co-directed with brother Paul. CGI fantasy romp? Try The Golden Compass, his flawed adaptation of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights. There’s also whimsical Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy (co-director), neurotic insect animation Antz (writer) and classy Oscar baitA Single Man (producer). He even jumped on the Twilightbandwagon, directing New Moon, the second (and poorest) of the tween-catnip series. It’s a career quivering precociously between journeyman and hack, but goodwill should be restored with his admirable new film, A Better Life, which attempts to bring the complex issues of US immigration to a wider audience.
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