"In heathen times you might've been a great priestess of Isis. Yet in modern times your purpose has more worth. You are our salvation."
Eggers records a success with his first film since the production torments of THE NORTHMAN, a film which despite its high merits was covered by the scars and grafts of a poorly re-stitched studio vivisection.
It could be said NOSFERATU lacks the excess of Eggers' earlier features: the extremely finicky to the point of absurdity dialogue,…
Really good. I had a look and Adam Elliot is a few years older than me, a white Australian man born in Victoria in the 70s.
Elliot's culturally specific preoccupations mean the little quotes, slices, vignettes and Easter eggs of Australiana that litter MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (how the Canberra suburbs look, how a 70s or 80s Australian kitchen or living room looked, Vegemite, Melbourne streetscapes, the word "poofter") also ring a bell with me, so that was something to…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"It's our actions that define us. Not our words."
So goes the refrain of the dead wife in Captain Fantastic, a fascinatingly bad film ultimately almost elevated by its dogged pursuit of that Dead Wife, capital letters, as a trope used to justify, exonerate and ultimately to restore and endorse what should properly be regarded as the regime of child abuse inflicted by its protagonist Ben (Viggo Mortensen).
By this method, let's consider then just the action of the film.…
You'll often hear a film hailed as a manifestation of authentic evil. Jonathan Glazer's THE ZONE OF INTEREST is a film that actually achieves this objective.
Its first element is its source material, a Martin Amis novel of the same name, based on the family life of Rudolf Höss during the years 1940–44 when he was the commandant of the death camp at Auschwitz (Oświęcim) in Poland. Amis's novel has however been stripped back to its bare bones, with many…
