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As much as I adored Davis’ commanding performance, which felt like it didn’t belong in 1950, I can’t help but feel that a chunk of this film is dragged a lot. I just don’t know where, but somewhere in the middle it definitely feels like it could’ve been trimmed. Maybe I was just really tired too, but I was hooked for the first and third halves of the film.
One thing I really liked is how Mankiewicz perfectly captures the…
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There’s something incredibly saddening that lurks in this film.
We see Christiane’s real face only once in this film, and for the majority of its runtime she wears a mask to hide her disfigurement. Yet, her emotions and expressions are so easily understood. Perhaps that’s why this film is titled what it is, even eyes without a face can speak volumes louder than a smile or a frown ever can.
The body horror was surprising, I had no idea they would…
31st October,2021. The long Halloween. A short day’s journey into the one night which is followed by the city’s most notorious residents. Often praying on the weak for money, or simply for the thrill.
The twist? The one in the shadows. He stalks his prey like a Lion to a deer. He has eyes all over, somehow. Is he a phantasm? A hack? Another guy playing dress-up for the most well known festival of the year?
He possesses the ability…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It is what you think it is.
As we all know, Paul Thomas Anderson is a very very well known name now. Over the course of a year and a half I had the chance to binge all of Anderson’s films so naturally, I took that opportunity. I wanted to know WHO this PTA guy was as I’d never heard of him until 2020 during quarantine. I dove in head first to Phantom Thread which I adored with all my…
