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The Fall 2006
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Soaring highs and abysmal lows. Often impressive, always sufficient performances in the frame narrative give way to a part Dalí, part Escher dreamscape, decadent and uncanny, shocking in its beauty and scale. The content of the interior story, however, is utterly inane (outside of the very ending, which gets all of its emotional legitimacy from the dynamics in the frame narrative, and none from the interior). What to do with a movie where black-clad knights seep out of an Escherian…
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Erin Brockovich 2000
Maybe corny, but I think that sense just comes from how directly representational true-story dramas like this are starting to come out of fashion. As that kind of movie though, this is perfect. Soderbergh has a fantastic sense of pacing, Roberts and Finney (and Helgenberger, who stood out to me) perform entrancingly, the highs and lows feel real even in the family stuff (which is not nearly as interestingly elaborated as the rest of the movie). Scratches about a dozen itches just right.
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