I listened to the soundtrack today, and now I’m worried I just liked the music and not the movie. The colors were great, some of the tennis shots were cool (like the slow motion leg shots), and any scene with just Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor was perfect. I thought Zendaya did not bring a lot of depth to her performance of Tashi, which was disappointing. Tashi’s motivations were too hard to read. Was she pulling the strings for both…

Last year at Marienbad opens with a series of shots of an ornate and anachronistic hotel as descriptions of its luxury and endless corridors are repeated over and over with slight variations. Rather than put the viewer in a trance, as a scene like this usually does, the variation on the words creates a lack of confidence about one’s memory of the previous line and a feeling of entrapment. These impressions carry throughout the duration and reveal themselves to be…

Na Young’s identity as a Korean woman is tied up in the relationship with her childhood best friend. Her sadness after saying goodbye to Hae Sung is more related to the loss of the person that she was and the life she could have led in Korea than it is to the loss of her relationship with Hae Sung. Arthur understanding this and being there to comfort his wife makes him the most emotionally mature character in this movie, even…