it’s ok! some fun lighting, the fake music is cool… yeah. uh. the plot makes sense! where it struggles to hang together is on a lower level, shot by shot and sentence by sentence. there are some jarring transitions. some itchy lingering questions. the characters barely exist: they have no texture, no coherent personality. there are some effective montages, but reflecting on them makes me conjure up the quip that opus is sort of like if a montage was a feature…

i am sorry to not like this more, and i can see the shape of why it has been so well-recieved, but in the moment, in my seat, i found this thin and strangely little.

i think my foremost issue is nora. she exists only in relation to these two relationships and, to a lesser extent, her work (and then it only serves as a gloss to her character, because the labour of writing is boiled purely down to goals,…

really liked. amazing hair. but also, great sound design: some truly excellent noises. very cool location, and i particularly enjoyed how comfortable the characters were at navigating those mad spooky corridors: this is their world, their knowledge. was really impressed by and caught in the rhythm of the thing, which underpins both the film as a whole piece, and the individual scenes; there’s a rolling poetry to the dialogue. and best of all, there’s such a cute baby. there was a…