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Saturday Night 2024
I’m not fully up on my SNL lore, but the buzz of the “getting ready to go live” part of this film a clef - and the flow of the large ensemble - was deeply satisfying to watch. There have been a few TV shows that have delved into retro comedy in recent times - I’m Dying Up Here and The Marvellous Mrs Maisel come to mind - and this film applies a similar kind of biopic future-lens, as you…
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Babygirl 2024
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I’m not usually a massive Nicole Kidman lover, but this was such a great performance. The ending suggests that her BDSM is conceptual, but it seemed a bit neat and seemed to iron out the messy/real elements of the relationship. Thinking of Miranda July’s recent book All Fours, which has the protagonist choosing a bold new sexual direction after losing her sexual energy for her long term partner, this ending felt very chaste, and perhaps unnecessarily pathologised. But I also liked that the conclusion was not a “doomed” ending with a moral undertone for the lovers. I think she needed a few more dance-floors…
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Parthenope 2024
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This movie was not for me, it felt like the most cliched arthouse Italian film of all time! Tedious, patriarchal, over-indulgent, “philosophical”, cloying, gross. The Naples setting was by far the best part of this ridiculous and pompous movie. If you want a 2024 film about a young woman’s sexual journey created by a male director, watch Anora instead.
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