I watched a Tale of Autumn last fall and decided to watch one movie from this collection each season. With everything going on, I realized I only had a few more days of winter left to watch this particular one.
This was so bittersweet, and I think Eríc Romher did a really good job at capturing not only winter, but the character's emotions in the movie. It felt like how you'd feel post-Christmas after all the celebrations were done and…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This is the uncle of "Anora" and 'Pretty Woman", the uncle who's *seen* and done things, but won't tell you what he's done or seen. But you're not ignorant.
This movie feels like it fits easily into the time where there was a lot of erotic thrillers, though it's light on the shock value erotica and the gratitious violence. The body count is low, only two people die, and the first death is left up to the viewer's imagination while…
I put this on on a whim because I've been considering rereading the book for my yearly "reread my favorite childhood/teenage books".
I spent most of the movie being distracted by wondering if her hair was really her hair or if she was wearing a wig the whole time. The second thought I had throughout the second half of the film was the Springs/Sands should have been the one who slowly got custody. She was 16, not 6... she knew…
When you watch a movie for Winona Ryder and the entirety of it is Simon Baker (who admittedly I love in The Mentalist), kinda having sex but it's mostly all just off-camera. I feel like this movie could have been so much more if the story focused on her. Biased? Probably. But I don't care.
The ending was nice though.
