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I Care a Lot 2020
What a strange hybrid of genres and tones.
Act I is a poignant black comedy, bringing to the table a social issue that will let the viewer thinking 'can this happen in real life?'. Albeit dramatized, check The New Yorker's 2017 article 'How The Elderly Lose Their Rights' and judge for yourself.
Rosamund Pike and Diane West are stellar, although the latter fades away quickly, pushed aside from the story in favor of Peter Dinklage, leaving the viewer who expects…
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Hail Satan? 2019
These Temple of Satan satanists are mostly full-time contrarians in a personal crusade against Christian cultural dominance, relying heavily on agitprop, street performances, and fishing for provocative media headlines that expose the hypocrisy and contradictions of a supposedly free society with religious freedom.
Although the legal and political skirmishes account for the most part of the documentary, I personally found more interesting the shorter tangents around the origins and evolution of modern satanism, plus the motivations and rationale of its current followers. …
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Jackie Brown 1997
A grounded, subtle and classy Tarantino that we saw no more after Kill Bill.
This movie is such a rarity in his career since it's the adaptation of a novel. The king of obscure B-movie collage abandoned his auteurist ego and put his talent into adapting someone else's story like Kubrick would do, bringing in his trademark style of dialogues.
The result was fabulous but too elitist, didn't make enough money and headlines like Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, so his filmography took a turn that brought many new fans on board while others we are still grieving over.
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1989
A bit of context, before the international success of ‘Todo sobre mi madre’ and ‘Volver’, the 80s and 90s Almodovar was mostly known in Spain for his kitsch and colorful comedies and melodramas, featuring strong women, junkies, sex workers, and LGBTQ characters, struggling with love, kinks, desire, and obsessions.
His movies were fresh and provocative at the time, transgressing and making fun of the uptight mainstream conservative values and embracing eccentricity and irreverence.
‘Tie me up! Tie me down!’ falls…
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