If you can imagine the basic plot of “Teorema” but replace the aggressively bisexual, god—or devil—like interloper with the moronic, zero-forethought protagonist of “Good Time” (but keep the bisexual part), you might get a sense of the odd mechanics at play in this film. It is a strange movie, and more so a strangely funny movie. To be sure, there is some excellent craft here. There are some pastoral wide shots composed beautifully like paintings. Even some of the B…
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An Unmarried Woman 1978
There’s a moment where the music swells after Erica (Jill Clayburgh) and Saul (Alan Bates) have hit it off and we think we’re in the start of a romantic montage— but instead we cut to Erica ice skating with her friends at Rockefeller Plaza. Mazursky knew what he was doing. The female friendship storyline is a smart inclusion in this romantic/sad/funny/moving portrait of a woman at a crossroads in her life.
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Antiporno 2016
Though Sono cranks the weird, exploitation and primary colors to 11, ANTI-PORNO is ultimately a great deal of noise with little substance. Literally and figuratively shrill (100% of the less than subtle metaphors are repeated [twice] in case you manage to miss them and also 100% of the dialogue is shouted), the film somehow manages to make its brief runtime feel overlong.
My favorite repeated visual motif that also nearly acts as a metaphor for the film itself: the bloated lizard grown too fat to escape from his glass container.
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