Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A film full of force and form from its director and the three protagonists, Brody, Pearce and Jones. Is the true brutalist American capitalism? It’s unclear, but we do know that Brody’s emigre architect is fighting to be recognised in this new culture so full of wealth and ambition but little idea of what to do with it. A good scene has an exasperated Brody explaining that a brief with a chapel, a library and a gymnasium is many buildings,…
Light cascades through blinds onto Chalamets bum fluff but only once it has passed through the mist that fills every shot and indicates that we are in a version of the American dream, one full of guitars, cars and basement bars. Chalamet performs the full Dylan repertoire to great effect, always ready to face adversity (jilted girlfriend, jilted Baez, jilted Ed Norton) with a fresh new song. I came out of the film thinking how great it would have been…
A decent homage to the earlier Theron epic, but not quite as glorious in its execution, potentially diminished by an emphasis on storyline