Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Caché; 2005
4 stars
A clearly-drawn dangerous predicament from the beginning involving family stalking, that develops into a carefully played out suspense simultaneous with a “protagonists”/victim driven investigation. Quotation marks around ‘protagonist’ because that main character/victim is not likeable, and thus your regard for the matter at hand becomes a desire to just solve the case so you can dispense with your irritable disposition towards the circumstances of a bad character. Irritability makes for anxious suspense. In this case because…
I was perusing Prime Video when I came across this. “Frozen”, which my Ski/snowboard buff friends never fail to mention every time I’m with them. I had, though, never managed to look it up. Getting straight to the point- I liked it.
The movie writes-in many of the tropes, cliches, and “stretches” familiar to any B-rate movie, meant to immediately resonate with a specific crowd in mind, and in this case- that’s anyone who’s been on a chairlift. There are: …