Is Barbie the scathing feminist satire it set out to be? I think at times it does definitely achieve this. I think for Gerwig to find such a big audience for her film she had to encase it in this perhaps over done concept of setting it in Barbieland, although think it's cleverly done.
What I found enjoyable about it was all the tiny nods to films I really love and also the shared experience I had as a woman…
I’ve had a rough year and dealt with it by living a bit of a hermit-like existence. This was the first film I’ve seen at the cinema in years. It was a wonderful re-entry point. I like the Icelandic films of Baltasar Kormákur. Touch is a fairly slow and simple story, but has a lot going on. The beginning of the film is in present day Iceland, where we meet the aging Kristófer. The film quickly jumps back to London…
Søren Kierkegaard's quote: ‘What is youth? /A dream /What is love? /The dream’s contents’ is how Vinterberg begins this bittersweet and astute film. The English title 'Another Round' is somewhat less bleak than the Danish title 'Druk' which simply means 'drunk'. But this film is not bleak. It's definitely a celebration of life with exuberant scenes of drunken antics and fun and then the flip-side of the darker contemplative sobriety. The premise of the film is that four friends (all…
