A film in desperate thrall to its portentous overstatement, built from painfully lengthy dialogue-heavy scenes and creakily played out around a mystery that, ultimately, is no mystery at all. The overworked visuals (360 degree pans, extended zooms) are the antithesis of visual storytelling. There's clearly an attempt to introduce narrative misdirection throughout, but each one of Leave the World Behind's troubling set-pieces ultimately turns out to be no more than what it first appears to be: another stepping stone, on a very straight path, to en ending free of drama or surprise.
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Toscana 2022
A film can't be this woeful. And yet... Leading man Anders Matheson's 'This is how you spot whether someone has had a stroke' acting style is quite amusing. He definitely forgets his lines at one point and they just leave it in. If, as Joel Cohen contends, film directing = tone management, hapless director Mehdi Avaz thinks he's making... a documentary? Long scenes about cheese. Long scenes of just car drives. Long scenes of just sitting down. Matheson's Angry And…
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